Well…
The guy seems to have extracted the vocal and used the same backing.
Brilliant. Did you watch the whole vid?
You mean the “scouse band” reference?
Actually the work that went into the video
Just watch the Rick Beato video on this topic. (Spoiler: It’s The Beatles, kind of)
Ah ha! Yes, it was really well put together.
It was the Beato video that led me to the one I posted.
Yes, I know who the scouse band is! (Scouse being the nickname for all things Liverpool. The image of the cover of Help - helped.)
It’s always The Beatles, right? Kidding.
Copyright law is complicated and it’s always a case to case decision. Up until the 1990s, melody and harmony were basically the sole foundations on which every court ruling was based. This has changed drastically over the past 30 years. Sound and production have become increasingly more important along with other factors like statistical probabilities of melodicc/harmonic progressions, the overall impact of a sample on a song’s recognition potential, etc.
The melody in the video is based on a two part sequence, something that has been around since the beginning of time. And the final note doesn’t imply a closure, btw…
In other words: Detecting plagiarism is complicated and there are many factors involved although the initial songs show a striking similarity IMO.
Whatever, there’s AI out there stealing everything all at once these days and people in power couldn’t care less about it. So, I guess we’ve got a much bigger problem to deal with right now.
An investigative mind (more enthusiastic than me) might dig down that rabbit hole even some more than either of the previously mentioned videos.
Specifically:
If the original melody was copyright Lennon, McCartney and from what I’ve read, the old Beatles publishing rights are now owned by Sony Music publishing except for those McCartney songs where publishing rights reverted to him (in some countries).
Since Lennon wrote that melody, so presumably Sony still owns the publishing rights to that melody.
How many of the artists using that melody are also using Sony publishing? Could that potentially explain the lack of copyright lawsuits?
Or is it even simpler - like the melody is actually even older, from a work that’s in the public domain? Or from a work that’s technically not in the public domain, but where nobody can prove that they own the publishing rights. That would be a reasonable explanation for the absence of copyright lawsuits.
Side note: Blues melodies are practically publishing copyright proof, since they tend to riff on public domain melody snippets. Presumably that’s also the case for lyrics involving dead dogs, former love interests and pick-up trucks in need of repair. 
“Pick-up trucks in need of repair”
I always thought it was dead trucks, former dog interests, and love in need of repair.
Which Lennon-McCartney song?
“It’s Only Love” from Help!
For me Pop will always be turning on the radio to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40…same list would have Blue Oyster Cult, The Carpenters, Kiss, War, Helen Reddy, Charlie Rich, Kansas, ELO, Styx, The Ohio Players, Paul McCartney and Wings, etc. Pop just meant popular, it wasn’t a contrived type of music 
Speaking of the Beatles(big fan here!) I think the best band to pull off sounding “Beatles” without being clones was Cheap Trick, the vocals come from the same place!
I remember watching The Beatles cartoon on Saturday mornings so I’ve been around…or dragged through the mud depending on how you see it
Klaatu has entered the chat
Klaatu’s 1976’s song “Anus of Uranus” was a secret hommage to “Yesterday”. It took decades to uncover the mystery: You got to run the song through Halion’s spectral synthesis module and play it backwards in order to hear the resemblance…
@Cookie_Jarvis No disrespect, I’m a huge Beatles fan myself. Songwriting, arrangement, performance, and production still amaze me to this day!
Youse guys never hearda Oasis??
It’s Only Love … One of my favourite!
I always thought of it as a song that:
- Had a chorus melody that you swore you’d heard a thousand times before you first heard John sing it, but you hadn’t, then you realized it was just more proof he had a direct channel to the musical spheres.
Sorry, never got into Oasis, thought they were a boy band
Like Metallica? 