Is it legal to use the same chords progression or drum patterns as other songs? Just that, nothing else.
Is it legal to use the same chords progression?
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bandcoach
Zukatoku - Mod Scientist
no issues usually
- it is impossible to copyright or patent a chord progression
- otherwise after the first works were created no-one else could ever write another piece of music
similarly it is impossible to copyright or patent a specific rhythm
- most pop type drum patterns have been used over and over and over, so difficult for anyone to claim a copyright in them
- even Bernard Purdie cannot copyright or otherwise register the Purdie shuffle
- it is possible to copyright a collection of rhythms played as a specific sequence on a single instrument or collection of instruments, but that is a different issue and requires full notation of the intent including dynamics and other articulations
- it is impossible to copyright or patent a chord progression
- otherwise after the first works were created no-one else could ever write another piece of music
similarly it is impossible to copyright or patent a specific rhythm
- most pop type drum patterns have been used over and over and over, so difficult for anyone to claim a copyright in them
- even Bernard Purdie cannot copyright or otherwise register the Purdie shuffle
- it is possible to copyright a collection of rhythms played as a specific sequence on a single instrument or collection of instruments, but that is a different issue and requires full notation of the intent including dynamics and other articulations