Inspiration Comes In Many Forms: Did Usher Copy Homer Simpson?
from the wow-wow-wow dept
This one is a bit old, and I had meant to write about it during the holidays, but got busy with some other stuff. However, it's such an amusing story I can't resist writing it up, even if it's a bit late. Apparently, some radio DJs noticed some serious similarities between Usher and will.i.am's new song OMG... with a Homer Simpson song from a few years back. Of course, you have to hear it yourself:Either way, the real question should be: does it really matter? I mean, it's amusing, but is the world any worse off if Usher and will.i.am did blatantly copy Homer Simpson? Even if you don't like one song (or the other), copying doesn't do anything to harm the original, and obviously the Usher song is really quite different in overall tone and intent. The two are hardly competing. When this story first came out, lots of folks were quick to slam Usher and will.i.am -- and it may seem easy to mock them for supposedly copying a cartoon character -- but music is all about inspiration and creating and building off of a variety of influences. If one of those influences happens to be Homer Simpson... is that really such a problem?
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D'Oh
Cartman
"Dude, the Simpsons have done everything already. Who cares?"
Stan
"Yeah, and they've been on the air for like, thirteen years. Of course they've done everything."
At this point they've been around for 22 seasons. If you haven't ripped off the Simpsons, it just means they haven't ripped off you yet.
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At this point they've been around for 22 seasons. If you haven't ripped off the Simpsons, it just means they haven't ripped off you yet."
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The only recourse
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We then need to spend millions of dollars on crooked politicians so that we can have the laws made even more severe because obviously they aren't severe enough or this wouldn't have happened in the first place..
Also: Just in case someone posts any small snippet of either one on you tube, lets toss go ahead and send a pre-emptive C&D......
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Still hiding from the Stallone atrocity ("hey, I know, let's take the bad-ass Dirty Harry of the future and stick him in a prison with Rob Schneider as a sidekick!")
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Reaction?
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I'm wondering
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Shoe on the other foot
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The integrity part comes in if you try to claim credit in general without realizing how much you borrow from society.
"but music is all about inspiration and creating and building off of a variety of influences"
The integrity failure is in trying to deny others access to the work.
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OMG ... can't breath ....
It just goes to show how really pathetic label music has become.
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I see yellow people
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That's the world freetards would have us living in, a world without the Simpsons, or music, or movies, or software.
No one making anything in case someone else copies them or does something later.
We're dooomed DOOOOOOMed
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I think you are attacking the Simpsons. I really do.
Now go tell the Supreme Court that freetards have enabled garbage like the Simpsons to exist. Then mention how denying the Simpson's will promote the progress.
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Did you come up with all of the amazing aspects of communication called English? Did you come up with the music and dance? How about the materials and design forming your clothing? How about the technological effects used in the video and music? How about the ideas expressed in the lyrics?
What you are demonstrating is the arrogance of copyright law (and patent law) supporters. That failure of analysis leads them to anger when they suspect anyone got a whiff of what they created, but they totally fail to see how much their own work is but an amalgamation of pieces that they have experienced from others and worked their way into their thinking.
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That's nor influence, that plain and clear plagiarism. But who would go against such rich people... Fox maybe?
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For more Usher copying of joke songs:
OMG USHER IS A COPYING THIEF IT IS AN EPIDEMIC
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