Plagiarism Not Involving Coldplay?
July 8th, 2009 by WendieNormally, when I hear ”plagiarism,” I immediately think “Chris Martin,” but there’s a new “Gee, this song sounds familiar” case out there, and it doesn’t involve Coldplay.
There’s a musician Adam Freeland who composed an interlude track for his 2008 album ”Cope”, titled “Mancry.” He claims that Black Eyed Peas heavily borrowed from his piece of work and applied it to their new song, “Party All The Time.” Too heavily borrowed — their lawyers are involved.
What do you think? I listened to them both and can’t really tell if they sound all that similar, but I also just figured out that “ABC” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” are the exact same tune.
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I think that the songs are obviously very similar, but using a similar case involving the Beastie Boys, I think there’s precedence that will say this case needs to be thrown out. A prior judge ruled that you can’t use 3 notes in a very generic order and permanently own those three notes.
Wow – I can tell. But can someone really copyright those notes? I mean they seem very simple and its only because there is distortion that it is similar.
Yeah they are similar but there are literally like 3 chords in Adam Freeland’s song so I feel like his song wasn’t particularly original to begin with. Someone was bound to use a similar chord progression at some point…
Crap Wendie, I had no idea that ABC and Twinkle, Twinkle were the same. I can’t wait to use this bit of trivia as a conversation starter the next time I hang out with Elton John. You rock!
Due to the ad nauseum Michael Jackson coverage, I’ve been sitting here for the past few minutes thinking “NO! They are certainly not the same songs!!!”
Then I realized she was talking about the alphabet song and not the Jackson 5 one. D’oh. Yeah, they are the same…
Haha thanks for clarifying that. I was also comparing Twinkle and Jackson 5 and was thoroughly confused…
oh em gee i didn’t know ABC and twinkle twinkle were the same song!!!! whoa… that just blew my mind there for a bit..
and so is Bah Bah Balck Sheep… lol
Wow that first song painful…if you want me to confess to anything force me to listen to that all day!
And the BEP basically just took his track and sang over it.
WAS painful…
Identical, too bad for Freeland he won’t make money off of it.
yeah this isnt gonna work… they are *almost* identical but yeah… not gonna fly
Yup, I can’t believe this! The same. Aw… I’m sort of disappointed!
sounds exactly the same to me. too bad this dude probably wont get anything for it. it is too simple of a stanza to be considered plagerism. its kinda like if you wrote something calling lindsey lohan a crazy firecrotch alcoholic and then perez said the same three words in regards to her and you tried to sue for plagerism. its to simple of a statement and could be coincidence, which is probably what BEP will say.
From the video, they sounds exactly the same. It’s only a chord progression but even the sound and way the played it was identical.
Exactly. I think the guy has a chance because the distortion and everything is exactly the same, not just the notes.
I hope the guy wins…they were exactly the same. Blah. But these plagirism cases usually never turn out in the favor of justice.
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