Ripped-Off Riffs? Rise in Plagiarism Claims Unnerves Pop Songwriters

“I shouldn’t be thinking about legal precedent when I am trying to write a chorus,” a Beyoncé songwriter says, long after “Blurred Lines” changed the rules. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/business/media/plagiarism-music-songwriters.html?partner=rss&emc=rss