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Bard spotting on Bluesky 18 March 2025 
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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
This song, Manau's La Tribu de Dana, is one you may never have heard before, but which has played a major role in shaping the face of modern music
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It's a rap in French, and uses a melody baseline from a 1970's recording of a Breton folk song, Tri Martolod. Alan Stivell arranged that recording and so held rights in the particular melodic arrangement.
Stivell sued Manau for plagiarism, and ultimately, the courts sided with Manau — which …
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
… cleared a legal path for the reuse and remixing of short melodic arrangements — interpolation and quotation of arrangements and even sampling of recordings — in music distributed in Europe.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Here is Stivell's original recording of Tri Martolod, for comparison:
...Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And here is a cover of it by Nolwenn Leroy:
...Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And here is a Swiss Celtic Folk Metal band hosting Manau performing La Tribu de Dana
...Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
And here is what is arguably Eluveitie's most accessible, famous, and most-covered song, "Inis Mona", clearly interpolating both La Tribu de Dana & Tri Martolod
...Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Because of Manau's La Tribu de Dana, such masterpieces which existed in grey areas such as Dean Grey's American Edit are no longer in limbo in Europe.
I'd still post this, even if it were fully illegal.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Lifting from the Dr Who Theme Song, lines from Dr Who, Green Day's American Idiot, & the KLF's Doctorin' The Tardis — which lifted from Gary Glitter's Rock n Roll Part 2.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
I believe that songs are prophecies.
———
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Well, maybe I'm the cute twink, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
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