Commissioning Soundalikes. What if clients want imitation instead of originality? |by K. Hondros

Have you ever heard of “soundalikes”? They are music products often found in highly commercial areas of the music business, such as advertising, and are specifically created to sound extremely similar to already existing pieces of music. Soundalikes are problematic. They do not follow the typical intrinsic motivation of music creation to be original and to strive for novelty, it is difficult to perceive their production as “creative” or “creativity,” and they strongly suggest that copyright ...