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Decoder with Nilay Patel cover image

It's brutal out here: Olivia Rodrigo and how the music business makes songwriters fight over credits

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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You Can't Copyright a Vibe in a Song

There's this precedent that you can copy, right, a vibe in a song. This leadstoit like an explosion of these cases. They win it at trial. It's appeald. They win again. Regt, yes, ferrel and robin thick, they got to pay marvingas family. This is a c change in the music business. And just sort of overall, we're in a place where maybe you can copyright the vibe of a song. The court hasn't really said, but the opportunity is clearly there to get paid. But then with the olivia rodrigo interpolation stuff, maybe you can copy rigt very tiny building blocks of cord

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