Ninth Circuit reverses summary judgment in favor of pop singer Sam Smith in music copyright dispute, holding in unpublished ...

“Defendants’ experts do not identify any hook in the prior art that shares that same melodic contour with those starting and ending pitches.” Lawyers for Smith pointed to variations in the ...

First, they removed the melodic contour of the speech segments, essentially making them monotonic but still intelligible. The second manipulation involved changing the temporal aspects of the ...

A simple method for coding the melody of a song as a sequence of up and down pitches. Only three letters are used (u=up, d=down, r=repeat) to describe the melodic contour, which is sufficient to ...

and to melodic contour, and to harmonic and everything else. In fact you may find that much more of the brain is involved in the perception and the response to music than to language or anything else.

and toward a more accessible language based on the rhythmic and melodic contours of folk music. Yet there is very little that sounds folkish in these pieces. The writing is still vigorous ...

"Defendants' experts do not identify any hook in the prior art that shares that same melodic contour with those starting and ending pitches." Lawyers for Smith pointed to variations in the pitch ...