Plus, there were, as the judge put it, “broader dissimilarities in context, structure, mood, melody, and harmony,” plus distinctions in the overall mood and theme: Bowen’s was regretful about a lost love, while Paisley’s is upbeat and hopeful about igniting a spark between a couple. That’s just an “idea,” and given the variation in the melodies, the judge writes, “no lay listener would recognize this element of variation as a similarity.” The judge wrote in an opinion released Thursday that merely repeating the phrase nine times is not sufficiently similar, nor is the fact that the two works share the feature of shifting the melody beneath the lyrics. So could Bowen and her musicologist Judith Finell (the same one who testified on behalf of the Marvin Gaye family in the “Blurred Lines” case) convince the judge that the phrase was used similarly enough that a reasonable juror would see the Paisley song as an infringement? This time, however, the defendants, including EMI April Music and Sony Music Entertainment, didn’t back down.Īs a short phrase, “remind me” didn’t even muster thin copyright protection. At the earlier stage of the case, Trauger wrote this could amount to “more than mere coincidence” and primed some exploration of how these lyrics were used.Īs a result, the risks for the defendants went way up, and often in these situations there’s a settlement rather than the costly pursuit of litigating the case to a final judgment. There are a lot of differences between the two “Remind Me” songs, but what the works had in common was how “remind me” and “baby, remind me” were repeated often enough in the hooks of each song. Three years later, Lovelace would work with Paisley on their own “Remind Me,” and while there wasn’t much evidence that Lovelace took Bowen’s song with him, access was sufficiently alleged.īut the plaintiff still needed to show substantial similarity to have hopes of winning her case. She performed it at bars and restaurants around Nashville, and in 2008 participated in a country music songwriting workshop in which Lovelace was a guest speaker offering critiques of her song. It wouldn't have been the same song had we recorded it and recorded it.Bobby Rivers, Celebrity Interviewer, TV Host and Film Critic, Dies at 70īowen was given significant benefit of the doubt by making a reasonable case that the defendants had access to her own “Remind Me” song. It kept it in the moment, just doing it off the cuff. I was so excited about the song once the words became established and I was so happy he didn't deliver on time. I had never done anything like that before. "It was the most unorganized thing I had ever been a part of. "They were still changing lines," she noted. Underwood saw something in the song and flew back to Nashville to work with Paisley. There's mumbling, a few lines here and there." I have this work tape demo with Sheryl Crow singing my part. Underwood recalled: "His son actually had a play date with Sheryl Crow's son and he asks her - totally puts her on the spot, I'm sure - to sing the female part. She saw the song's potential so Paisley sent her a work tape so they could figure it out together. When Paisley had an idea for a song about a couple finding their way back to what used to be, he hummed it to Underwood on speakerphone while she was in L.A. Once Paisley pushed back the release date of This is Country Music the pair were finally able to find the time to sort out a tune. "We're not gonna sing 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' just because we both know it and we need to sing together. Underwood explained during the Billboard Country Music Summit in Nashville, that doing a song together had been on the radar of the two stars for a while, but she doesn't like to force things.
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