Some prankster could take Coulton's karaoke, re-create it by plunking in notes, sing different lyrics, and then what? They'd have the copyright on a brand new original song? And then if someone else did the exact same thing, they'd owe royalties to that prankster, even if the lyrics were changed again? I understand the basic principles, but that's where it starts to bend my mind.
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Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.
Some prankster could take Coulton's karaoke, re-create it by plunking in notes, sing different lyrics, and then what? They'd have the copyright on a brand new original song? And then if someone else did the exact same thing, they'd owe royalties to that prankster, even if the lyrics were changed again? I understand the basic principles, but that's where it starts to bend my mind.
From what (little) I understand, they'd not owe royalties to the prankster, just to the original artist.