Steve Dustcircle

Johan, nobody here as any ‘daddy issues’.  Not even late of Friday nights. Maybe the more than 13,ooo children under 5 years old that die each day would have if any of it was real. Die antwoord might be Jesus for you but it makes no sense telling us here. We don’t believe in any god.

Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest bands no doubt, but if you take a signature riff or vocal melody, you should acknowledge it, even if you modify it a bit. Now the “Stairway” question, I agree with the courts, however I still have no doubt they lifted the progression from Spirit, who they toured with. They didn’t really use any signature…[Read more]

In blues music, there’s a long tradition of borrowing melodic and lyrical phrases, and in music generally, there are only so many ways to create a musical phrase. I think it’s becoming harder and harder to “own” one’s own music anymore. A performance/recording, yes, but to into a court and  claim that a melody is original and never been strung…[Read more]

I’m sure legal departments all over the place are working hard to protect creators and IP owners from AI rehash. Trouble is that tech departments are always a step ahead of them. And of course, patents, copyright and trademark protection are all very different. For instance, the complexity in licensing music for reproduction, publishing,…[Read more]

The word “different” is key to IP claims, and yet it doesn’t mean much at all without some definitional narrowing of the meaning for a particular purpose.

For example, even two guitars made by Fender, identical part numbers from their catalog, are different if only because they don’t occupy the same space. This one’s here, that one’s over there.

You don’t believe you died on the cross and were born again as Jesus Christ, Son of Jehovah/Yahweh?

Why would any theist believe that? Jesus died for your sins so that you don’t have to. He saved you from having to do so. Be grateful to him. Stop saying it means something else 🙂

You all seem to be making up your own versions.

The word “…[Read more]

God is a master at double, triple, quadruple-entendre. The Cross could represent all..

On what authority do you claim this?

“The Cross is the representation of The trinity”.

You are the only Christian I have heard ever say that. All the others tell me that the Cross is a representation of the death and, more importantly to them, the resurrection of Christ.