Drumbeats Intellectual Property?

[FuzzFace]

Are drum beats intellectual property?

[Greeny]

I'm not sure 'drum' and 'intellectual' are words that belong in the same sentence, lol.

I can't see how they can be, unless there is something ultra-distinctive about them. It would be hard for most drummers to pick out their beats in an identity parade. Interesting question - I have to say I don't really know!

[Geir]

I'm not sure 'drum' and 'intellectual' are words that belong in the same sentence, lol.

I'll show this post to my brother when he comes over for the weekend

[Oldrottenhead]

well phil collins got half the copyright from peter gabriel for the song intruder. he was messing about. pg recorded him. then later wrote a song round the drumtrack. when pc heard it he demanded a writing credit.

[Greeny]

well phil collins got half the copyright from peter gabriel for the song intruder. he was messing about. pg recorded him. then later wrote a song round the drumtrack. when pc heard it he demanded a writing credit.

Collins is a w*nker though

[henwrench]

Mad subject really....

     If a drumbeat is 'intellectual property', then surely so is a guitar chord, or sequence of. And yet literally thousands and thousands of songs contain the same patterns, beats, basslines etc. These are the 'building blocks' of songs. It's how it all comes together at the end that distinguishes one song from another. 'Save Tonight', by Eagle Eye Cherry and 'If God Was One Of Us' by that bird who I once used a toilet cubicle after, are essentially the same song. I remember a few years ago Public Enemy and NWA going through the same argument over who 'owns' a beat. Who 'owns' the G-C-D sequence?

                                                    henwrench

         ps That cubicle absolutely reeked of poo and wee. Dirty girl....

[FuzzFace]

ps That cubicle absolutely reeked of poo and wee. Dirty girl....

Maybe it smelled before she got there.

[Gritter]

'Save Tonight', by Eagle Eye Cherry and 'If God Was One Of Us' by that bird who I once used a toilet cubicle after, are essentially the same song.

                                                    henwrench

         ps That cubicle absolutely reeked of poo and wee. Dirty girl....

Why were you using the women's lavatory?

[henwrench]

Why were you using the women's lavatory?
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       Unisex plastic shit houses, backstage somewhere. And I can catergorically state she was the first person to use it. 

                                                   henwrench

            ps I still can't remember her name, but I know she was blonde

[Greeny]

Joan Osborne. The Dirty Birdy Birdy