 | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||
| ||||||||
The main article's cited melody overlap with Roxette's Jefferson explains a lot (I gave it a listen in YouTube, and it's a dead match for 19 of 19 notes in series). I first bought Groove Coverage's "God is a Girl" early 2008, as a pop song 3:04 in length; at the time it had no dance elements/edits. Shortly after that, the song disappeared from all e-tailers -- I now assume due to copyright issues. For several years I would periodically check but could not find it anywhere. (I wanted to re-buy it as nonDRM with >128 kps.) Now, late 2013, it re-appears as an EP, with six versions (iTunes lists the EP as released March 15, 2008 but trust me, they weren't selling it at any time between ~2009 and mid 2013), two of which have names that suggest either might be the original song, though their lengths are different: the "radio edit" at 3:40 and the "album version" at 3:43. But none of the EP's six versions are the original song that I much preferred. (I like dance tunes just fine, but the pop original of this song feels much more authentic to me.) The six new dance edits still contain the melody held in common with Jefferson, but it occurs much less often. I'm thinking that is to stay within legal precedent of "fair use" sampling, to avoid copyright infringement. Otherwise, why would the EP exclude the original 3:04 nondance version? For ref, here is a YouTube post of the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw5BKqYNd5I. -- ZenGeekDad 9-29-2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZenGeekDad (talk • contribs) 18:07, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
