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| From | "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: Poor Little Avril/Plagarism |
| Date | Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:51:06 -0700 |
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Listen to the guitar melody line throughout the Coldplay song "Talk"
Not only is note-for-note the same as Kraftwerk's "Computer World"
(recorded 24 years earlier)...it's in the same key!
Same goes for "Come As You Are" (Nirvana) which essentially
steals the same guitar riff from the Killing Joke song "Eighties".
If ever there were two bands to sue for some quick cash I would think
Nirvana and Coldplay would be it!
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
>
> What is the legal definition of plagiarism? Is it not two bars of a
matching
> vocal melody with the same number of bars of a matching lyric?
>
> The words and the rhythm of the vocals are the exact same for a bar of
music
> (1 and 2 and 3 e an uh 4 and) but the melody is completely different. Is
> this enough to constitute plagiarism, whether intentionally done or not?
>
> Mike V.
>
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