Re: [Harp-L] plagarism

[IcemanLE@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 6/29/2007 12:59:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
celticguitar1@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I heard  a well known harmonica player last weekend and found that this 
person was  taking solos note-for-note from Sonny Boy II and Little Walter 
and  inserting them into other songs without attribution, therefore passing  
them off as original improvisations. I consider this musical plagarism,  
probably commited to cover up a deficiency in improvising. Does anyone  
agrees that this would constitute plagarism? It is almost certainly a  
copyright violation. 


 
I don't know if copying solos note-for-note is considered copyright  
violation. Jazz performers do this a lot, although not to COMPLETE solos, but  parts 
of them - sort of a tribute to within the performance of the piece. They  don't 
mention what they are doing. They just do it.
 
I've often felt that this type of endeavor does show a deficiency in  
improvising/creativity and comes from that "memorize solo after solo to learn"  
school of thought and it does lower my opinion of the player when this is  apparent 
in their performance. 
 
The Iceman



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