Originally posted by: Indradhanush
Before we embark further on plagiarism it is imprtant we differentiate between plagiarism, genuine inspiration and blatant copying. The last is pretty clear and one such example is pritam's zara zara kiss me for race from a Taiwani music. I do think that is not very pleasant. But coming to inspirations like back street boys crazy vs ARR's o humdum suniyo re (saathiya) or kelele vs parkathey (where ARR has fitted lyrics on raag deshkar while initial 3 bars are same and what a lovely bassing, I would let any one go for such an experiment. Similarly michael learns to rock ( I am no actor) vs jaane na kaha from Jane tu...again from ARR's house are posted at few sites as copying but they are actually soft rock ballads with similar arrangements hence sound same.
Similarly R D Burman chura liya hai has inspiration from its tuesday, very beautiful extrapolation of few chords or simply two chords from gods of war to aa dekhe zara
or o maria vs mamoniya (Beatles), listen to them they are vastly different, we shouldn't run down some one's creativity and efforts for something posted some where, regarding itwofs let's remember the owner himself has disclaimed he doesn't have sufficient knowledge about music and the postings are not entirely his.
When a composer is writting notation he may actually not remember why he is writting particular bars or whyare they in his mind there.
I at times feel what if nearly 400 raagas were patented we never would have got so many beautiful songs from 60s till now. After all the songs based on raaga also sound very similar.
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