Viva la Vida/If I Could Fly

[Knox]

Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay because of a similarity in his song, "If I could Fly" that was released in 2005 with Coldplay's recent Grammy winner, Viva la Vida....

check it out....



Now,.. most people would listen to this and say that Satriani has a pretty good case here.... call me crazy, but i disagree... anybody who has studied music.. knows that we basicly recycle the same chord progressions and melodies over and over and over again.... dont beleive me??

released in 2002


released in 1973


still not convinced..... ok,,, remember this youtube hit..



when everyone uses the same 6 or 7 chords there are only so many combinations you can do..

[urbanspaceman]

Not much to add to that, aside from I couldn't agree more with you dude I studied classical film score at uni and that's littered with similar examples.

And nice work!

[strawberrysweetie]

So basically...Cat Stevens should be the one suing people.

It's all quite amazing really, especially with those other examples.

I think Coldplay's is different enough, though. Plus...for plagiarism...doesn't that basically require the intent to purposely copy another person's work? How would they know for sure they even knew of that song or that they purposely copied it? It could be purely coincidental.


And that last vid, I've never seen that before...that was amazing. Cracked me up! ;D

[k151]

That's true. How many songs are released every year? Millions?

You gotta think, there are only so many ways sounds can be organized in time. Some songs are bound to sound similar to each other, especially if they use a popular chord progression.


It's the same with movies, where there is that clause "any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental..."

With 6.7 billion people on the planet and thousands of movies produced each year, some characters are bound to resemble real people.