Olivia Rodrigo has been one of this year’s biggest pop successes. She’s also been followed around by accusations that she rips off other people’s music.
This has resulted in acts like Paramore and Taylor Swift receiving credits on some of her songs, despite having no direct part in writing them.That formal crediting of an artist who wrote a song that has heavily influenced the writing of a new song isn’t new, but is arguably becoming much more common, possibly in reaction to some high profile song-theft legal battles in the US courts, and in particular the ‘Blurred Lines’ case.However, it’s all still part of the classic “when does inspiration become infringement?” debate.
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