I recently stumbled upon this website that lists and discusses a bunch of famous copyright infringement cases in relation to the music industry. I thought it was really interesting to find that so many well-known artists have been accused of copyright infringement. It makes me wonder which of these artists are actually guilty of intended infringement and which of them simply chose an unlucky string of words to be in their song.
I think that these artists are probably big targets for people looking to sue because they have money. The suers are simply trying to make a quick buck and in most cases the artists probably aren’t guilty.
That is if the artists even wrote their own material. As Brian pointed out in class on Thursday, many artists sing their producers’ work. Would they be at fault, too?