Musicologist at Oxford Hoping to study copyright and DJing practices

I don’t really have anything to offer, but it’s an interesting post.

I imagine it’s a lot rarer these days than in the past. Powerful production software is available to anyone nowadays and re-creating a sound heard in a popular record isn’t beyond most experienced producers if they really wanted to. There are even websites that offer the service of re-creating sounds for artists which are technically royalty free but sound the same.

Taking musical/melodic/harmonic content is presumably a different matter altogether? Because while you’re not taking the recorded sound, you are taking the writers musical notation?