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So you can "hand-decompile" a song like that and be in the clear as long as you don't copy any audio directly. Cloning all the details of the original recording (mix, instrumentation, mastering, etc) is OK; it is not a derivative work of the recording, only of the composition.
How come we assume that reverse engineering some binary and writing some code that is somewhat similar would be copyright infringement? Obviously straight copy and paste from a decompiler would be a derivative work... but why do we obsess over a *human* accidentally "copying"?
(FWIW, in the above video, only the voices were ripped from the original, the rest is re-created from scratch. Also, all the synths are instances of Helm.)
Money. The bane of humanity
Lobbies write the law
great story on the topic (Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson): http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html …
Something I find interesting about the Sony v. Connectix case is that Connectix won *despite* not using clean-room reverse engineering. So apparently, while clean-room reverse engineering is a defense against copyright infringement claims, it may not always be necessary.
That is well established. Nobody ever claimed cleanrooming is a legal requirement, it's just a CYA technique.
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