DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law Volume 25 Issue 1 Fall 2014 Article 2 Musical Plagiarism: A True Challenge for the Copyright Law Iyar Stav Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/jatip Recommended Citation Iyar Stav, Musical Plagiarism: A True Challenge for the Copyright Law, 25 DePaul J. Art, Tech. & Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2014) Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/jatip/vol25/iss1/2 This Lead Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Law at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Stav: Musical Plagiarism: A True Challenge for the Copyright Law MUSICAL PLAGIARISM: A TRUE CHALLENGE FOR THE COPYRIGHT LAW Iyar Stav* ABSTRACT The interface of law and music has always appearedunnatural. While the law aims to provide certainty and order, music is more often observed as a field which operates in a boundary-less sphere. For that reason, the endeavor to treat purely musical is- sues with clear, conclusive and predeterminedlegal rules has been perceived as a fairly complicated task. Nevertheless, while music has become a prospering business, and musical disputes have been revolving around growing amounts of money, the law was re- quired to step in and provide clear standards according to which these disputes should be settled. The courts in USA and UK have established and developed several doctrines intended to set a uni- fied framework for assessing the extent of similarities between an original work and an allegedly later infringing work.