The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
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Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#2If I repeatedly linked to my own site with a title that interested you but all you could see on my page was an unskippable ad demanding that you sign up and pay for my unrelated product, wouldn’t my site be banned from HN? Why do sites like nytimes get a free pass with their paywalls?
Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#3If I repeatedly linked to my own site with a title that interested you but all you could see on my page was an unskippable ad demanding that you sign up and pay for my unrelated product, wouldn’t my site be banned from HN? Why do sites like nytimes get a free pass with their paywalls?
Lots of us have already turned off javascript for NYT, so we're not seeing that.
Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#4If I repeatedly linked to my own site with a title that interested you but all you could see on my page was an unskippable ad demanding that you sign up and pay for my unrelated product, wouldn’t my site be banned from HN? Why do sites like nytimes get a free pass with their paywalls?
I feel the same way. My intuition tells me only some small percentage of HN readers have a NYT subscription, so these posts are of little use. Though the posts keep appearing, so perhaps I'm wrong, and it's really substantial...like at least 25%? What's the threshold where it makes sense?
Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#5Zeppelin have long been known to be notorious plagiarists:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/led-zeppelins-...
Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#6My (least) favourite example of this is that Iggy Azalea gets a song-writing credit for Classic Man. http://www.mtv.com/news/2215334/iggy-azalea-fancy-classic-ma...
If you listen to the two, you can spot the similarity but... it’s nowhere close to sampling or plagiarism. They’ve got different melodies, different feels, just a similar prominent keyboard sound.
But no-one wants a court case, so the writers of Fancy get a cut.
Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#7I wonder how well the 1987 album [1] would do in this new climate?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_(What_the_Fuck_Is_Going_O...
Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#8If I repeatedly linked to my own site with a title that interested you but all you could see on my page was an unskippable ad demanding that you sign up and pay for my unrelated product, wouldn’t my site be banned from HN? Why do sites like nytimes get a free pass with their paywalls?
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Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#9Re: The ‘Blurred Lines’ case scared songwriters, but its time may be up
#10If I repeatedly linked to my own site with a title that interested you but all you could see on my page was an unskippable ad demanding that you sign up and pay for my unrelated product, wouldn’t my site be banned from HN? Why do sites like nytimes get a free pass with their paywalls?
Paywalled articles are accepted on HN if there's a known workaround:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
If it's hard paywall with no workaround, it shouldn't be on HN and you should flag it or email the mods.