One of many topics we studied was Plagiarism. It was mostly about text, but I want to talk about plagiarism in music. It is more difficult to identify plagiarism in music because even though two music sounds similar, which is not plagiarism until the composer accept that.
On April 13th, the court judged that "외톨이야" by CNBLUE did not copy "파랑새" by WHYNOT. I've been interested in this issue. To many people, two songs sound very similar, but the songwriter of "외톨이야" denied the suspicion. He even said that if he really had wanted to copy a song, he would've chosen a song by famous foreign musicians, not indie band. However, it sounded very strange to me because he could choose a song by indie band because he thought no one would realize the similarity between two songs.
The dispute is still going on even after the court's judgement. Meanwhile, a software company is developing a program identifying the similarity between two songs. Music is art, but we need a computer program to know whether a song is original. It sounds very ironic.
Plagiarism is wrong in two ways. It means that someone is going to steal other ownerships and deceive other people. So it must not be accepted anytime.
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