Satriani sued Coldplay
“Rock guitarist Joe Satriani has sued Coldplay, accusing the Grammy-nominated stars of plagiarizing one of his songs.
Satriani’s copyright infringement suit, filed on Thursday in Los Angeles federal court, claims the Coldplay song “Viva La Vida” incorporates “substantial original portions” of his 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly.”
Read the entire report from Reuters.
hm… IMO they sound too similar to be a coincidence:/
Ma numesc David Gheorghita. Cint la tobe intr-o formatie rock (fara nume deocamdata). Pe linga asta lucrez ca freelancer in domeniul designului grafic sau web @ 
it is a BIG resemblance after playing them and the overlapping makes it clearer. Even if they came to the same notes through a creation process it is still an issue because satri got there first and copyrighted them.
Plagiat.
“Even if they came to the same notes through a creation process”
@liftingshadows: that’s highly unlikely!
I know. but I was thinking just like in science when two people come to same ideas and get to “share” the Nobel prize. (that is highly unlikely also) I said it just to make up “the best possible excuse” form them.
pacat, ca piesa era faina.
I don’t think that music can be compared to science/physics laws.
why not? it is not 100% analogy but both could be viewed as creation processes.
science is based rather on observation and not on creation.
When you say that, you in fact drift very far from my example. Imagine one setting up a new experiment and another putting some notes on the staves. They are both innovating, they are discovering, they are creating. Of course they make use of different laws. But my analogy appeals to the principle.
so lets get back to satriani.
science is based rather on observation and not on creation.