MUSIC - No more melodies!

[Mia]

I'll agree that the 50s and 60s have more original music than today's music. Also, let's not forget that it was a time period where they would use complete songs, instead of sampled versions of songs, like today's music. Do you think a person could get away with using a melody that's been created by an unknown artist? If they get sued, it'd be pretty difficult to prove it in court.

I absolutely do, because it's already happened before.

Here's an example:

Take a Dive, produced in 1999: https://youtu.be/Z7drHJ71rIw?t=17

I Gotta Feeling, produced in 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA

The person who created Take a Dive, Bryan Pringle, sued The Black Eyed Peas for infringing on his song, but he lost the case because he didn't have "enough proof".

Want to know the really screwed up part? Bryan Pringle was ordered to pay THEM a sum of a million dollars for the court costs.

It just shows that the justice system has failed us on many occasions, but that's a topic for another day.