[redm]

This reminds me of Under Pressure and Ice Ice Baby, the latter also having to pay up.

[seanmcdirmid]

In that case, the baseline was directly ripped off, it wasn’t just “sounded similar”, it was an actual sample.

[gsg21]

But to hear Vanilla Ice explain it is pretty hilarious - https://youtu.be/6TLo4Z_LWu4

[goda90]

If sampling to create new art were better protected, then cases like this wouldn't even come up. The documentary "Good Copy Bad Copy" was talking about this 12 years ago

[rtkwe]

Yeah I think we're long overdue to reevaluate what copyright means in music. I think it should be much closer to how we treat fashion where anything but a direct rip off is 100% fair game (and that is even more about trademarks because the actual design can't be copyrighted).

[Sahhaese]

It's nothing like that because in that case, the latter directly sampled the former.

[cwzwarich]

But in that case, Ice Ice Baby sampled the recording of Under Pressure verbatim.

[xxs]

https://xkcd.com/159/ Leading with that relevant xkcd

Under pressure likely features the most recognizable bass line of the 20th century. So even claiming new art would be deeply influenced by the former