[thedaemon]

You are not a musician I take it. If you play punk style music, you are playing 8-16 of the same notes in a row. 16 notes are nothing.

[ptah]

even in punk, it would be plagiarism if you have four sequences of 8 repeated notes but with 4 different tones

[ptah]

i am actually a musician, the rhythm is important and a sequence of 16 notes at the same rhythm and the same tonal distance is too big to be a coincidence

[officemonkey]

So you're saying that every "Boogie Woogie" piano song is infringing if they play more than two bars of a boogie woogie riff.