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    Question about sound-alike music

    Thanks a bunch for your input - very methodical reasoning that makes a lot of sense! Regards, John
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    Question about sound-alike music

    Thanks for the input! If push came to shove I would just redo the intro rather than throw away the entire song. Yes I do recognize the similarity, but I think that's mostly due to the mandolin tremolo effect that we use in the song (a very clichéd element of traditional Italian music which is...
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    Question about sound-alike music

    I'm an indepenant musician who is in the the middle of recording an album; one of the songs to be recorded (an instrumental) has an introduction that is reminiscent of The Godfather theme - by that I mean that the introduction uses similar instrumentation (classical guitar, strings, and...
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    Using a trademarked name in a song title

    Thanks so much for your input!
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    Using a trademarked name in a song title

    I have a collection of original musical instrumental pieces that I wrote and copyrighted about 10 years ago which I now I intend to publish on CD. I just found out that the title to one my compositions is now the name of a local rock band in California who trademarked their band name 3 years...
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