lawsuits cost money and you can get very bad PR if you're seen as a wealthy individual/company bullying "the little guy" You take someone's song, record it in out of tune farting and then publish it - yep, that's copyright infringement. It's still the same creative work, even if it's in a completely different, and for vast majority of people completely unrecognizable, format. Yeah, absolutely it is. You have taken someone's creative work and reused it without their permission. even the work itself can't be said to be the same because it's virtually impossible to translate a big work into another language and retain 100% of the same meaning literally every single word is different the layout of every single page is different Think about this - you take someone's novel written in English, translate it into Arabic without their permission and then publish the translation. ![]() At what point does a tune (sequence of sounds with particular pitch and duration) diverge from being the song in question? Take the Master of Puppets example - just imagine that tune played on a hurdey gurdey or mouth harp or some other utterly non-metal instrument? Is that still a copyright infringement? It would certainly in no way be mistaken for Metallica.
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