Disgusting example of ripping of my music and music of one of my friend, that caused blocking of his account

Hello good folks of AJ.

This is very unfortunate, but than again, we only start thinking about this subject when it happens to us. I'm used to this by now since one of my tracks were copied multiple times and sold on this and other sites as variations. I filed a complaint only once though. But I digress.

The problem with these types of situations is that you can't prove that you are the actual creator of the music in popular music genres. Or at least that's what I've learned so far. It all comes down to the point where the judge decides which one is it, if the matter ever comes to court that is, and it may or may not favor the actual author.
So having the original project versions with which one can show the development of their idea is helpful, but unfortunately it doesn't provide the actual proof of authorship of that idea.

This case is especially tricky because if you put some effort into this matter and google the tracks in question (I've done it only for the one which was provided in the link above, the 80's style).
- You will hear that the tempo of the two tracks are different,
- one has the theme (melody) played on a synth lead the other one doesn't,
- the mix is different (which to the untrained ear may be all the difference they need to think it's a different track) etc...
- but the key is the same,
- harmonic progressions (which in no case can be claimed by any living person, but that's obvious I hope),
- and the overall feel and vibe kinda screems:"Hey, I listened to your track, and I'll make a very similar piece which people call sound-alike anyway so... can we just pretend it's a sound-alike please?"
And than the person goes and files a report of a plagiarism like a "thank you, have a good day sir" statement, which sucks big time.
I'd flip out if it happened to me like that!

Anyway, I hope the matter resolves in the right way, but I doubt people will stop being douchebags any time soon.

As for AdRev,
1. I don't see how it would find similarity with the tracks in question since the tempo has been changed. If it does, than it's a very good algorithm google has!
2. I've read on this forum somewhere that people were complaining about people using their music without a watermark in their You Tube videos which they didn't even sell once. And than someone replied that there's a way of swapping the audio track for the one from AdRev's database once you upload the video.

So if that is true, not only does AdRev suck (in my opinion at least), but it's a way of making your music publicly available for free. Cool right?

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