1 | ->''"See, their song goes "ding-ding-ding da-da ding-ding/ding-ding-ding da-da ding-ding",\ |
2 | and mine goes "ding-ding-ding da-da ding-ding/'''ding'''-ding-ding-ding da-da ding-ding".\ |
3 | It's totally different."'' |
4 | -->-- '''Music/VanillaIce''', comparing his "Ice Ice Baby" to Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s "Under Pressure" |
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6 | Want to use a popular song for your soundtrack, with or without the original lyrics, but don't have the money to get the rights? You can always get some studio musician to record a suspiciously similar song -- an instrumental version of the tune with a note tweaked here and there, designed to sound as much like the original as possible while being different enough not to violate MediaNotes/{{Copyright}}. |
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8 | Strangely enough, this sometimes happens with tunes which are clearly in the PublicDomain in at least some countries. Sometimes for the opposite reasons of public domain soundtrack -- so you could copyright the song. |
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10 | A staple of shows that frequently feature parody songs or skits. |
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12 | Note that, under United States copyright law at least, it is perfectly legal to use the same exact tune as the original song ''if'' the derivative work is clearly a parody of the original (parodying a work is a protected form of expression; using an original tune to parody something unrelated is fuzzier) -- though this did not become official until it was upheld in a 1994 court ruling, and would obviously not apply to instrumental versions or songs that were instrumental to begin with, hence most of the examples on this page. |
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14 | So as to avoid Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike, note that apparent cases of this are often not intentional plagiarism, but accidental replication of a song the artist didn't consciously remember; or (especially for partial matches of just a few notes) the two artists may have simply had the same idea independently. Many cases of this are also simply a result of both songs using a very common chord progression, such as TheFourChordsOfPop or the PachelbelsCanonProgression. |
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16 | Contrast with InTheStyleOf where the song is covered, in a style as far from the original as possible. When one song recycles the tune of another, it's ToTheTuneOf. In the music industry, when a snippet of a recording is used in a new song, this is called "{{sampling}}", and usually requires permission... but it ain't always given. Some early {{rap}} and HouseMusic songs had unauthorized samples of {{Disco}} songs. Basically CaptainErsatz or {{expy}} for music pieces. Also contrast MusicalPastiche. |
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18 | [[RenamedTropes/QToZ Formerly known]] as the ''Jimmy Hart Version'' after Wrestling/JimmyHart, who, while in WCW, made a lot of these for the wrestlers' themes. Pay attention to that while the potholes named as such are no longer common on this wiki, the ProfessionalWrestling articles may still include a mention of the former Trope Namer, this way or the other. |
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20 | Note that if you're just reworking your own theme, that doesn't count since it's ''your own'' copyright you would be violating. And nobody cares about that. |
21 | ---- |
22 | !!Examples |
23 | [[index]] |
24 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/{{Advertising}} |
25 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/{{Anime}} |
26 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/{{Film}} |
27 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/LiveActionTV |
28 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/{{Music}} |
29 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/ProfessionalWrestling |
30 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/VideoGames |
31 | ** SuspiciouslySimilarSong/{{Nintendo}} |
32 | *** ''SuspiciouslySimilarSong/DonkeyKong'' |
33 | *** ''SuspiciouslySimilarSong/TheLegendOfZelda'' |
34 | *** ''SuspiciouslySimilarSong/{{Pokemon}}'' |
35 | *** ''SuspiciouslySimilarSong/SuperMarioBros'' |
36 | *** ''SuspiciouslySimilarSong/{{Wario}}'' |
37 | ** ''SuspiciouslySimilarSong/SonicTheHedgehog'' |
38 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/WesternAnimation |
39 | ** ''[[SuspiciouslySimilarSong.MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' |
40 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSong/OtherMedia |
41 | [[/index]] |
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