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It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits
Decoder with Nilay Patel
The Fear of Thin Copyright
Olivia: How an artist might use a bunch of uncopyrightable building blocks to create a song, and then a court might decide they've pieced together those blocks in a way that puts them in violation of something called thin copyright. If we go back to the case of good for you and parramore's misery business, there's more similarities. They share more or less the same song structure. Both are about issues of heartbreak. The corprogressions change in really similar ways. So if you're a publisher and you own pieces of these songs, you might not want to expose yourself to this risk.
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