{"id":23314,"date":"2020-01-07T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T19:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23314"},"modified":"2020-01-14T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T23:04:22","slug":"23314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/07\/23314\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1987,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/06\\\/arts\\\/music\\\/pop-music-songs-lawsuits.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250829111322\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/06\\\/arts\\\/music\\\/pop-music-songs-lawsuits.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 21:42:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 01:07:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 13:20:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 03:13:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 13:57:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 13:57:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/06\/arts\/music\/pop-music-songs-lawsuits.html\">It\u2019s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It<\/a>: &#8220;Originality is a con: Pop music history is the history of near overlap. Ideas rarely emerge in complete isolation. In studios around the world, performers, producers and songwriters are all trying to innovate just one step beyond where music currently is, working from the same component parts. It shouldn\u2019t be a surprise when some of what they come up with sounds similar \u2014 and also like what came before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It: &#8220;Originality is a con: Pop music history is the history of near overlap. Ideas rarely emerge in complete isolation. In studios around the world, performers, producers and songwriters are all trying to innovate just one step beyond where music currently is, working &#8230; <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/07\/23314\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-23314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-links","tag-music","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}