Familiar Tavern Music Query

[Landomatic]

Being a Wisconsin native it was plaguing me when realizing that a tune near and inside Inns was strikingly familiar. Specifically, there's a melody that sounds a lot like Gordon Lightfoot's
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitgerald." He as an Irish descendant and song writer whom borrowed some of his inspiration from "folk music."

Take a listen and tell me what you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

https://mohurley.blogspot.com/2013/01/old-tunes-new-licks.html

Anyone else made any similar discoveries?

[YOGI]

Uh Oh....are you thinking of "Plagerism" Maybe?
The song writers NAMES are on the KCD Store page...and all the Tunes are for sale also to the Public, so I'm of the Opinion this should have been "Confirmed" by their Lawyers before this whole thing went Up for Sale? Ya think?

[Landomatic]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

Uh Oh....are you thinking of "Plagerism" Maybe?
The song writers NAMES are on the KCD Store page...and all the Tunes are for sale also to the Public, so I'm of the Opinion this should have been "Confirmed" by their Lawyers before this whole thing went Up for Sale? Ya think?

Hadn't thought that necessarily. I think anyone would make the argument that certain melodies/tunes are probably public domain, especially if it's rooted in "folk" history. But then again who knows? Disney is trying to ply their trademark on the popular "Happy Birthday to You" song that most of us all grew up with. I was more thinking that it was cool to see different inspirations from different parts of the world show up in a video game decades, hundreds of years later.