Copyright

Oh so criminal was created as a response to the Australian Government's (in particular the Attorney-General's office) "Fair Use and Other Copyright Exceptions: An examination of fair use, fair dealing and other exceptions in the Digital Age" Issues Paper, provided in May 2005. Instead of writing a wordy submission to the Government I decided to make an example of something that is currently illegal, but should be covered by 'fair use'. This is done by explicitly abusing copyright of easily referenced popular culture audio and video icons.


Keir Smith has taken advantage of a new loophole the Australian Government has created. I don't think it is illegal, just cheeky.
Shazam!



12 Monkeys - Universal Studios and Lebbeus Woods

In 1987, artist Lebbeus Woods took a graphite pencil and created his vision of a chair. The chair is shown inside a large chamber with a high ceiling, mounted on a wall in front of a suspended sphere, and with a visibly jointed grid forming the floor and wall. Hence the self-descriptive title "Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber".

Universal Studios released the artful film 12 Monkeys in December of 1995. Bruce Willis plays the distraught time traveler, Joe. In the beginning of the movie, Joe is brought into the interrogation room and told to sit in a chair which is attached to a vertical rail on the wall. As Joe sits in the chair, it slides up the rail, suspending Joe helplessly several yards above the floor. A sphere supported by a metal armature is suspended directly in front of Joe, probing for weaknesses as the inquisitors interrogate him. Joe is unlucky enough to return to the chair three more times throughout the movie.


The Chair

Yep, I think this one's a bit of a rip off. It wouldn't have been that hard to change the look of the chair, I mean they are almost exactly the same...


Comparing George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" and "He's so fine" by The Chiffons

Rating system - 5= Exactly the same, 1=not alike in any way.
Melody-4.5
Harmony/Chordal structure - 4
Rhythm - 3
Tempo - 2
Lyrics - 2
Instruments - 1

How are the songs similar?
The both have almost exactly the same melody in the verse. The vocal harmonies of the back-up singers ( "Do-lang, do-lang do-lang"after the lead singer sings the words "He's so fine", and the repetition of the words "My sweet Lord" after George sings).
The melody in the chorus is also almost exactly the same. the song includes the words in the title at the very beginning of both songs.

How are the songs different?
"My Sweet Lord" has a much slower tempo and is much longer. The instruments used are very different. The lyrics are different.

I believe that it was highly likely that this song was lodged in the back of George Harrison's head and he would subconsciously remembered it, thinking he had written it.
It is a very simple song and if a person writes a lot of music it could get a bit confusing I guess.