NumbersGirl

What I find interesting, as I mentioned earlier, is what Will said in an interview with Digital Spy I think just a few days before this came about: "Music is so available today and it's hard to be original, but bands like us and other great bands survive because of our chemistry. Every chord progression has already been written before, so the only unique thing you can have is who is involved." a) It's almost as if they're taking preemptive action of all further potential claims by stating their defense, and b) simultaneously shooting themselves in the foot by saying "music is so available today", i.e., having 'access' to the plaintiff's work. I'm assuming if you play this lady's song for the Shazam app (or other similar program), the song will come up. If the band had simply done that in the studio long before releasing the song, they could have either changed it in some way or at least considered giving credit. To go off on a tangent, frankly the existence now of programs such as Shazam makes me wonder if such copyright/plagiarism laws/precedent might change soon. Call it the "Shazam it" point: did the defendant "Shazam" their new song before releasing it? I agree with you; if this lady goes through with it, that will likely be the outcome.

omg Reilly's a woman :surprised:

Interesting... a couple got married in the middle of the Occupy Detroit protest. /yet another excellent contribution to the thread

I'm not sure, but I wouldn't doubt it. American radio sucks. It's almost like being spoon-fed by Big Brother.

Yeah pretty much this. fooby, if you think you're doing this and it's still not working, you should post a front/back pic of your sew job so we can better advise you.

Maybe, but at some point a line is crossed. If having never heard the song is such a strong defense as you say, that defense would be easily exploited. At some point, "but we haven't heard that song before" just doesn't cut it, whether it was intentional or not. And if this does happen to turn into a lawsuit issue, where would this occur? In Vietnam? In the UK? In the country of origin of the lady's record label (if not already Vietnam)? Or is there some sort of international standard copyright etc. court for things like this?

Yeah so I keep torturing myself by playing Charlie Brown, and then at the very end after the last note, pushing play on Moving to Mars. That would have been such a gorgeous transition on the album. Almost makes me wanna cry that they didn't do it.

Every day, but really only for a few minutes, and only when I'm driving to/from work. I switch back and forth between a few stations (none of which play current music); if there are commercials or if they're not playing a song I like, I just switch on the CD player for the rest of the drive.

In response, see my prior post: . Now, Coldplay have been very diligent with MX in regard to giving credit to other artists where credit is due, whether it be with chord progressions, lyrics, etc. So given that they have been so diligent with giving credit, I don't think they would intentionally be like, "oh hey that sounds cool, why don't we use that, nobody will notice that it's from this lady's song." However, whether or not it was intentional, whether or not they knew about this song, I'm not sure if that really matters. The lady had a prior officially released song, plain and simple. That would be like me driving to another State, and turning right on a red light (that's legal where I live as long as you stop first and look for traffic). If I get pulled over by the police in that State and they want to give me a traffic violation ticket, if I say "oh sorry I didn't realize that law existed here", he's not going to let me off simply because I said that I didn't know about it; not knowing about it doesn't make it okay. If Coldplay say, "we didn't realize that lady's song existed", this lady's lawyer isn't going to ignore it because they say they didn't know about it. To me this is much more obvious than the Satriani situation. Do I want this lady to have a case against the band? Of course not. Do I think this lady has a case against the band? Unfortunately, yes.

That's not really a reason to close the thread. If it is "no longer needed", people will stop posting in it and it will die once it gets to page 2.

YES INDEED

Hmm, wonder if I'll get reamed for this: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5046231#post5046231

I'm going to throw it out there that there's more than just chord progression to note. Duration of chords is also important. Almost identical chord progression isn't mindblowingly noteworthy by itself, but when you've got that plus almost identical duration of the chords...

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

:shocked2: Oh wow, that's horrible! I'm glad you're okay! And it's sad that this type of thing has happened to you before (even though this time was worse). Maybe you could come to DC a little early...

The media lurk here, so we won't have to wait very long for it to be no longer limited to one Vietnamese news article.

Yeah it's true. A member of PRS even posted the info here a couple of months ago, including a screen shot. And it wasn't just something that was made up, because admin was contacted (by PRS) and requested that it be removed. Obviously we can't do anything about discussions, but the PRS members-eyes-only images had to be removed. And if I remember correctly Chris got twice the share.

Sunny with a light breeze, about 17°C. Lots of the leaves have changed color, most are still on the trees with a few on the ground. Why can't this last for a couple of months instead of a couple of weeks?

HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS THREAD UNTIL NOW?!? D: I'm having a hard time putting a number ranking on the album right now; but, I don't have a hard time saying (imho) that it's their worst thus far. I posted my review in the "New Coldplay eh?" thread a few days ago, but I'll post it here since this is probably a better spot for it anyway:

us Americans are royalty illiterate/challenged

Just teach him to say it along with 'Coldplay', then post a vid. That would be ADORABLE. (as usual)

Interestingly enough, Will recently said this in his interview with Digital Spy: "Music is so available today and it's hard to be original, but bands like us and other great bands survive because of our chemistry. Every chord progression has already been written before, so the only unique thing you can have is who is involved."

I guess I assumed, given their past experience, that for shiggles they would have used a lovely little program called Shazam while they were in the studio. You know, to be on the safe side. As a preemptive action. What was I thinking.

I can't figure it out either. Maybe the embed links are available on the TODAY show website?

Protestors got props from Thom Yorke today: "(office chart) Chosen for and WARMLY dedicated to the brave souls PEACEFULLY sleeping on concrete OCCUPYing Wall Street and the City and elsewhere in the world, attempting to express the anger and disgust most humans feel for the institutions that have failed to serve the needs of all but a few of the human beings of this planet. Now yet those same institutions demand that we bail them out and in so doing sacrifice our own and our children's chances of a reasonable and safe financial future. 'Bangin Motherfuckers........' now i need to go and do something fluffy" /excellent contribution to thread