In Lessig’s article ‘In Defense of Piracy’ he talks about how the copyright laws have failed to catch up with new technology.  I agree with this for the most part.  If there is a very small amount of lyrics that a new artist wants to use, I feel that it is completely okay.  Moreover, if they want to take a couple of catchy note combinations and loop it, I am actually okay with that also.  On the other hand, there is a group of others that I disagree with.  For this reason I strongly suggest and support the idea of bulking up copyright rules.  If an artist is okay with someone repeating a large portion of his song in his/her own, then it should be okay.  This should be the case regardless of what the record labels want.  Even though the record label might not like it, they most likely won’t lose any money off of the incident anyways.  When a new song is released that resembles an old popular song, it usually sparks a brief popular stint for the old song anyways.  Ultimately, this increases the revenue for the record label supporting the old artist.

An artist might also have some great pride in his music and not want this to happen.  In this case, it should be possible for him to halter the making of new music using his previously made music.  All in all, I feel that the copyright rules should be able to let the artist have as much protection as he wants on his music, as long as it is realistic.