Coldplay being sued by Joe Satriani for plagiarism

[MackCaddy]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ofFw9DKu_I"]YouTube - Did Coldplay copy Joe Satriani?[/ame]

Just came across this today. Think it could be more of a coincidence, but it does sound pretty similar. What do you guys think?

 

[busta]

Whether they plagiarised his music or not they still suck.

 

[04SVT_COBRA]

Satch is a cool guy, he wouldn't do it unless he was sure.

 

[steeltoe]

As long as they change a certain number of things which they did because the notes are different along with some other things then it isn't plagiarism IIRC. but like said before either way they still suck.

 

[DDogsrt461BLK]

Who gives a FlyN Rats ASS?

 

[CosworthRS]

doesnt really matter.. i bet cold play listeners dont even know who Joe Satriani is anyways.. and vice versa. i hear bands copy each other all the time..

 

[JD03Cobra]

Millionair's fighting...who cares.

 

[aeolian_mode]

they should release the combined version, that sounded sweeet

 

[Burque97]

It's very similar, but it's not plagiarism. To truly be a rip-off or plagiarism, Coldplay would have had to steal the guitar riff that Satriani created and then copyrighted. However, since there is no guitar riff like that in the Coldplay song, but rather a vocal melody, Satriani can't really do anything about it. They would have had to rip off the same thing that Joe did, and since they only used the melody, but did it with vocals, they changed it over 10%, which is the amount that something has to be changed in order for it to be considered "different" - At least that's how it is in the graphic and image copyright world.

 

[assasyn]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r4mNdFoook]Red Hots vs Tom Petty[/ame]

 

[01svtL]

Good, they suck anyway. Guy sounds like a fairy

 

[IShb3w]

http://www.jay-zeezer.com/

 

[Jayls5]

Joe Satriani is a hypocritical douche. I hope he get sued for copying the Enanitos Verdes song "Frances Limon"

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57CgtX-BsI"]YouTube - ENANITOS VERDES - FRANCES LIMON[/ame]

same song he's suing someone else over. lol

 

[Paulinator]

theres so many songs that have similar beats and rhythms most rap and hiphop artists use the same beat and rhythm on their whole album. quite annoying.

 

[unforgiven]

I'm having a tough time beating Satch Boogie on expert.

 

[grinner]

ditto
tired hand blues

 

[DDogsrt461BLK]

original.........................[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A[/ame]

stolen property..................[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3hpiSbcFw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3hpiSbcFw[/ame]


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[Jayls5]

The song most commonly ripped off by ALL artists to the point where a comedian had to rant about it:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM"]YouTube - Pachelbel Rant[/ame]