I want to play a whipping post guitar lesson but I dont want a copyright strike.
I want to play a blues lick on guitar but it belongs to Johnny Winter.
Careful….play those 5 notes and you might be asking for a copyright strike.
Today we’re going to talk about notions derived from Copyright Infringement. That is,
These 5 notes with one of them repeated 3 times are legendary notes to some. They begin Johnny Winter’s “it’s My Own Fault” from the epic album, “Johnny Winter And Live”.
You play these 5 notes and there may be cause to give you a copyright strike.
Now if I were monetized with thousands of hours of viewing I might have to worry about playing those 5 notes in that order.
I get the feeling if I were making a huge some of money from my videos that some jerk would come along and flag me claiming that I should have a copy right infringement for playing Johnny Winters notes at some point in my blues demonstrations.
Sure you tell me its ok if your teaching it; it’s in the fair use act.
The way I see it, it doesnt matter how much copyright law you know, at some point any judge on a bad day can determin that you copied something even if you didnt play it the same way.
People like to rave about how “as long as you dont copy more than 10 notes in the melody.. as long as you dont copy 7 notes, 3 notes……my favorite one is: you can’t copyright a chord progression….”
They don’t know and most likely you don’t know. Have you read the copyright laws? I have heard that they don’t even help.
The main reason I raise this question centers around the question “can you copyright a blues lick”.
Usually by definition a lick or riff is a kind of cliché.
I can’t imagine that someone could grab an old cliché and say that they own the copyright to it.
Extracting from Whipping Post
1. Now I want to take it a step further; since I have been exploring the Fillmore whipping post 1971 by the Allman Brothers, I want to see what one could play that's like it but distant enough that you could call it your own.
2. The first two notes A and G: If I play similar combinations of A and G will I get a copyright strike?
3. The chord progression: What if I play the chords in 4/4 time? What about 5/4? What if I slow the tempo down so that its almost unlike it. What about speeding it up? There have been similar progressions just like this one : “Riders on the Storm” by the Doors. “Down in Monterey” by Eric Burton and Miles Davis did a tune called Milestones that used the progression.
4. Am I allowed to copy some leads from a certain recording? How many can I copy? What if I dont play them exactly the same way.
5. I imagine the groove of the piece is the giveaway. If you use the same notes in a totally differen
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