u/Remote-Breadfruit-81

title. i’m a work for hire producer, and i have a client (wrote all lyrics and chords, i’m literally just adding productions, i’m taking no mechanical split) who copied several traits of a fairly popular song. i know they know the song they ripped off because that was one of three songs they sent me for inspiration/reference.

how would you go about this? would you confront the client about it at all? would you step off the project entirely? would you keep doing it because you wouldn’t be taking any mechanical royalties?

i suppose this is both a question of ethics and legality…so, also, how would i protect myself legally as a producer from getting in trouble for interpolating on a song i didn’t write?

thanks y’all!