[Fmpro] Is this plagarism?

[Claude Castonguay]

Hi Peter,

i know the feeling = ; o )

As a canadian myself i would say that you would sleep better if you  
just reversed the order from C to F to Eb by C  Eb  F  C C F F Eb  or  
simply replace the Eb by a Bb one time out of 2 keeping the same rythm.

If the show was not about hockey i don't think you would need to  
worry as it is a pretty common bass line. Problem is context here.

HTH

Claude
On 08-05-16, at 09:01, Peter Wetzler wrote:

> I'm currently scoring the 3rd season of a dark comedy series called
> "Rentagoalie" and the producer asked that I score a montage with the
> feel of "Hockey Night in Canada" which, for those of you unfamiliar
> with the culture of our northern neighbors, has been called Canada's
> second national anthem.  I went ahead and took the four note vamp
> intro and built a cue that had none of the melodic or harmonic changes
> of "Hockey night in Canada" and the producers are afraid they will be
> sued.  In the many years of appeasing producers' "can you make it
> sound like...."  I've gone alot closer than I did with this to the
> original and stayed within what I understand to be the legal limits of
> copyright.  By simply inverting the interval of the vamp I know I
> could make the cue totally "risk free"  but I'd love to get a second
> opinion before I rewrite.  The "Hockey Night in Canada" theme is
> here:  http://www.imeem.com/ihun/music/K1S4j9Z0/ 
> hockey_night_in_canada_origin/
> and I've posted the themelike portion of the montage here:  Reel  
> http://web.mac.com/peterwetzler
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