There's Only So Many Ways To Combine Chords...
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Album:Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
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is the title of an article at Techdirt that does an end-around regarding the subject of the Satriani v. Coldplay lawsuit. I've not watched the videos, but I figure I'll laugh. :)
"The whole Coldplay/Joe Satriani copyright fight is pretty silly for a a variety of reasons. Yes, there are some similarities, but there's a ton of stuff in music that sounds the same. There's a great chapter in James Boyle's The Public Domain all about Ray Charles' song I Got A Woman, where Boyle goes back in time to show how Charles' song basically copies from a few others (in some cases rather blatantly) in order to effectively invent soul music. Then he moves forward and looks at how others have built off of Charle's song as well. You can read the whole chapter (and, indeed, the whole book) online. The chapter in question is Chapter 6: I Got a Mashup."
Comments (6)
I agree, they are similar but how many times have you listened to a song and thought it sounded like another song you knew from back when. I think the whole law suit thing is crap
Oh, man, but the videos there are awesome. :)
interesting, had not heard about this
I just watched the videos, and they ARE awesome! I see now that Journey could try suing a LOT of people if they wanted to play that game, heheh.
The comedian was really funny, too.
So few chords so many songs, eh? :)
I feel terrible for admitting this, but I love Coldplay's Viva La Vida.....oh the shame!
*crying quietly*
@jaggerandrea - I really liked the comedian, too.
@Anna - dark hair! woo! Um...yeah, I like VLV as well - I finally put my end-of-year music post up on Multi, guess I forgot to cross post here, but I thought the whole album was/is great.