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Post by Grroosss on May 7, 2019 6:17:26 GMT
I stumbled across a song called "Yours Truly, 2095" by someone called Sunni Colon... and it's not a cover, nor related to ELO's "Yours Truly, 2095", nor a tribute to Jeff or ELO in any way... it's not even about time travel! No one can claim that "yours truly, 2095" is a common phrase, or even that the number 2095 is frequently used--type "2095" into Google and ELO is practically the first result. What's it doing with a title like that?!
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Post by Timeblue on May 7, 2019 8:34:21 GMT
Sunni Colon? nice name.....
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Post by Timeblue on May 7, 2019 9:57:31 GMT
Would his son/daughter be known as semi colon?
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Post by elophile on May 7, 2019 12:28:38 GMT
I stumbled across a song called "Yours Truly, 2095" by someone called Sunni Colon... and it's not a cover, nor related to ELO's "Yours Truly, 2095", nor a tribute to Jeff or ELO in any way... it's not even about time travel! No one can claim that "yours truly, 2095" is a common phrase, or even that the number 2095 is frequently used--type "2095" into Google and ELO is practically the first result. What's it doing with a title like that?! I listen to a few seconds of it... that's just so odd. It doesn't sound inspired by ELO to me. He's got a youtube account. You could ask him why the song has this title. I asked google if you can copyright a song title and this result at least says you can't. Interesting, it mentions that in the 1980s there were three songs in the charts called The Power of Love. www.quora.com/Im-writing-a-song-but-the-title-is-already-in-another-song-Can-I-still-use-the-title
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Post by Helmut83 on May 8, 2019 2:38:36 GMT
Colons aren't usually sunny places; on the contrary, they are more related to the famous "where the sun don't shine". elophile: if the name were something as common and obvious as "The power of love" I could understand the repetition. But, as Grroosss says, the number 2095 alone is one random number in hundreds (or thousands) he could have picked. There's no particular reason to pick exactly that one, and to leave no doubt about it he it places it after "yours truly". Impossible to affirm seriously that you didn't copy it from Jeff Lynne. Timeblue: Good one!
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Post by elophile on May 8, 2019 2:49:00 GMT
elophile : if the name were something as common and obvious as "The power of love" I could understand the repetition. But, as Grroosss says, the number 2095 alone is one random number in hundreds (or thousands) he could have picked. There's no particular reason to pick exactly that one, and to leave no doubt about it he it places it after "yours truly". Impossible to affirm seriously that you didn't copy it from Jeff Lynne. I agree completely. The name is definitely copied from the ELO song. I was just saying that you can't copyright a song title there's nothing legal to enforce.
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Post by Grroosss on May 8, 2019 5:10:32 GMT
elophile : if the name were something as common and obvious as "The power of love" I could understand the repetition. But, as Grroosss says, the number 2095 alone is one random number in hundreds (or thousands) he could have picked. There's no particular reason to pick exactly that one, and to leave no doubt about it he it places it after "yours truly". Impossible to affirm seriously that you didn't copy it from Jeff Lynne. I agree completely. The name is definitely copied from the ELO song. I was just saying that you can't copyright a song title there's nothing legal to enforce. Intellectual property law is so confusing Apparently song titles can be and have been trademarked, though not copyrighted, if they are 'sufficiently original': "Yellow Submarine" and "Ziggy Stardust" have, for example. But generally it seems to be left just to reasonable judgement whether a song title infringes on other artists' creativity and/or will draw negative attention. You'd think that reasonable judgement would have said that copying "Yours Truly, 2095" is not very respectful when the song is not ELO inspired and doesn't contain 'yours', 'truly', or '2095' anywhere in the lyrics either.
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Post by Timeblue on May 8, 2019 8:21:35 GMT
I'm sure I once read somewhere that Michael Jackson tried to copyright the name Billie Jean, obviously it was thrown out......
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Post by elophile on May 8, 2019 15:06:20 GMT
I agree completely. The name is definitely copied from the ELO song. I was just saying that you can't copyright a song title there's nothing legal to enforce. Intellectual property law is so confusing Apparently song titles can be and have been trademarked, though not copyrighted, if they are 'sufficiently original': "Yellow Submarine" and "Ziggy Stardust" have, for example. But generally it seems to be left just to reasonable judgement whether a song title infringes on other artists' creativity and/or will draw negative attention. You'd think that reasonable judgement would have said that copying "Yours Truly, 2095" is not very respectful when the song is not ELO inspired and doesn't contain 'yours', 'truly', or '2095' anywhere in the lyrics either. You didn't listen far enough. The song does eventually have "2095" in the lyrics. I'm not sure about "yours" or "truly". I didn't listen all the way through.
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Post by Grroosss on May 8, 2019 19:34:46 GMT
Intellectual property law is so confusing Apparently song titles can be and have been trademarked, though not copyrighted, if they are 'sufficiently original': "Yellow Submarine" and "Ziggy Stardust" have, for example. But generally it seems to be left just to reasonable judgement whether a song title infringes on other artists' creativity and/or will draw negative attention. You'd think that reasonable judgement would have said that copying "Yours Truly, 2095" is not very respectful when the song is not ELO inspired and doesn't contain 'yours', 'truly', or '2095' anywhere in the lyrics either. You didn't listen far enough. The song does eventually have "2095" in the lyrics. I'm not sure about "yours" or "truly". I didn't listen all the way through. You're right, my apologies. I had only looked on the Genius Lyrics website which for some reason doesn't have the lyrics for the latter half of the song.
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Post by elophile on May 8, 2019 20:05:36 GMT
You didn't listen far enough. The song does eventually have "2095" in the lyrics. I'm not sure about "yours" or "truly". I didn't listen all the way through. You're right, my apologies. I had only looked on the Genius Lyrics website which for some reason doesn't have the lyrics for the latter half of the song. Oh, no! Don't apologize! It's perplexing isn't it? I might have to go on the youtubes and politely ask him what gives.
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Post by unomusette on May 9, 2019 22:28:31 GMT
Yeah! Don't show him the flamethrower unless he gets awkward though, keep the element of surprise
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