MOJITO

In musical terms, what is copy and what is inspiration. All i know is Deva copies a lot of songs. Inspiration, according to me is, a smart way of copying and nothing more than that.

I remember seeing an interview of Kamalhassan some years back. The question asked was something about Illayaraja. As usual, he gave a lengthy speech on him(everything true though). At some point he told something similar to this. "Whenever i hear a very good song or very different song from other languages, sometimes i think that it will be great if i had the same song in my movie. Once i asked Illayaraja to include one such song in my movie. He was not very comfortable with that idea. But, in no time, he composed a new song for me, which was in similar lines to the song that i proposed but still had the freshness of a new song. I know i am contradicting myself, but, such is the greatness of Illayaraja.
Kamal sonna ethavathu vishayam irukkum. Getting inspired requires something more than what i thought. So, we will consider his as the benchmark definition for getting inspired.

There is some problem in the website which hosts the songs below. If the songs in the links are totally irrelevant to this post, plz ignore the links.

Now, hear the song below. Is it inspired or copied?
Original Song

Tamil Song

Utter copy. Harris Jeyaraj tries to do a Illayaraja but ends up doing a Deva.

One more copied song. Here you go.
Original Song

Tamil Song

This looks like a more blatant copy than 'June ponal' song.

Dig http://itwofs.com/ to unearth lot more copies and inspirations. There were lot of copied songs from different music directors. I don't have a specific reason why i chose Harris Jayaraj's songs.

My understanding of inspiration and copy was well and fine until i heard this.
Original song:

Tamil Song:

Double blow
1.Even illayaraja copies!!!!!!!!(Must/might be the only song he copied in his whole career, i guess/hope)
2.One of my favourite song is a copy!!!!!

For me, Illayaraja is always the best. When it comes to melodies, variety songs, he is the Emperor. Pretenders, just stay away.

I have a doubt. I searched for a program in Google. I copied the code into my module. I changed all the variable names and function names. Now, is this called a copy or inspiration??