Actually, yes, it works like that, though that's very simplified. There are many people who do music that is very similar to another song, but will change a few notes of a chord progression. While this is usually used in parody situations, it's the same idea.
Thing is, I don't think you can "Copyright" an UI. Like coverflow, which is pretty much a digital version of a jukebox like interface. But this interface is different enough to be different. mostly because there are only so many ways you can display something. If something like that was allowed to be copyrighted, then, there would be many monopolies. Because somebody could have copyrighted the UI of displaying Title, Artist, and time of a song in 3 lines of text, and at that point, the entire DMP industry would be dead.
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Actually, yes, it works like that, though that's very simplified. There are many people who do music that is very similar to another song, but will change a few notes of a chord progression. While this is usually used in parody situations, it's the same idea.
Thing is, I don't think you can "Copyright" an UI. Like coverflow, which is pretty much a digital version of a jukebox like interface. But this interface is different enough to be different. mostly because there are only so many ways you can display something. If something like that was allowed to be copyrighted, then, there would be many monopolies. Because somebody could have copyrighted the UI of displaying Title, Artist, and time of a song in 3 lines of text, and at that point, the entire DMP industry would be dead.