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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Dude, look: I worked in a executive position for two of the biggest music publishing companies in the world for more than a decade. I know and understand copyright law as well or better than maybe all but a handful of people on the planet. Not Chiefsplanet, planet Earth.
Given Braincase's example, Joe Satriani ABSOLUTELY has a case. Not only can you lie the songs over each other to hear the similarities, they're the same exact tempo and same exact structure. Chris Martin's melody is a near perfect match for Satriani's guitar line.
Huey Lewis won a similar case in the 1980's. The "Ghostbuster's Theme" was deemed a copy of "I Want a New Drug" and Lewis was awarded royalties and copyrights and IMO, Satriani has a stronger case.
Again, I'd be absolutely SHOCKED if Satriani weren't granted 50% of the copyrights to the Coldplay song.
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That part...right there is exactly why Coldplay will be cutting checks to Satriani.
Yeah, the cord progression is pretty basic and if they were the same and that was all it was then that would be it. But because of the structure, tempo, melody being the f'ing same it's a rip job and Coldplay's sucktitude continues to be confirmed.
I'm pretty sure Vanilla Ice ended up cutting a check to Queen for about 7 notes in Ice Ice Baby as well.
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