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by woolion 1550 days ago
>Adam Neely did a good job touching on this in his recent analysis of the Dua Lipa Levitating lawsuit [1]

He most certainly did not. Of all the different takes out there, his is very weak.

>Most recent music infringement lawsuits seem to argue that some combination of...

There is a very good reason: as he mentions, the chords diversity use in pop songwriting is typically so poor that based only on that, the amount of things considered plagiarism would thus be ridiculous. If the similarities affect almost all dimensions (style, arrangement, rhythm, melody, ...) to the point of being "essentially the same", then it's exactly what people would want the law to exist for.

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> He most certainly did not. Of all the different takes out there, his is very weak.

I think Adam Neely did a good job explaining what infringement lawsuits mean in the context of popular music production. Whether or not you agree with the strength of his case on this particular lawsuit, well that's not quite the point I was trying to make here. Still, what do you consider to be a strong take on this case?

It's unfair to point weakness without argument. If you could elaborate your point, that'll be enlightening..