Most blatant tune stealing you have heard?
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Yeah, they were ripping off "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon. So All Summer Long is a rip-off of a rip-off. How delightful.
Practically any song nowadays. Rap is a constant offender of this. There was this one fucking R&B/pop/whatever-the-fuck song that used the Numa Numa song in it. All I could picture was there was some fat chick singing, flailing her arms...
The Paul Oxley's Unit song Spanish Bars and the Stratovarius song Playing With Fire both have a certain pre-chorus part that is uncannily similar
Also Paul Oxley's Unit was incredibly popular in Finland in the early 80's and Stratovarius is a Finnish band
Draw your own conclusions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aToVAnYqRaE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cviYiyOIrOg
Also Paul Oxley's Unit was incredibly popular in Finland in the early 80's and Stratovarius is a Finnish band
Draw your own conclusions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aToVAnYqRaE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cviYiyOIrOg
Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" and Joe Satriani's "If I Could Fly". When lawsuits are being filed, something is wrong.
Undead/hollywood undeads whole background soundtrack is the opening riff of Crazy Train played on what sounds to be a Synthesizer.
Um, as far as I know, that's an authorized direct sample and the song actually says "Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long." So that would've been closed down pretty fast if it wasn't legal. My problem is with "Me love" by everyone's favorite lard Sean Kingston. Complete rip off of D'yer Maker.The Rockerfly said:
Yeah but it still has almost identical riff, is the sme drum parts, the vocals and lyrics are almost the same, the corus is almost tooGangster Amoeba said:
I would call it a blantent rip off
Spooky! Not three hours ago I was talking about this in my copyright class. The Verve had a licence to use the sample of the "Obscure orchestral version" of that song. Unfortunately, a member of The Stones management (it might be the catalogue owner) thought that The Verve violated the terms of the licence by using to much of the sample. He sued them, won and now gets 100% of the royalties for that song. Now, just think how well that song has done.. Awards, Nike ads and everything. Holy shit as if that dude wasn't rich enough!xmetatr0nx said:
What's suss about it though is the lawsuit was only made once the song was doing really well.
Bummer.
I would also like to add that when rappers use other people songs, they pay for it. Therefore, don't steal it. Apart from Vanilla Ice, who didn't credit or pay Queen/Bowie. Whoops.
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Its an identical riff and same drum part because it is the same song. Kid Rock sampled it, he paid the fees and he pays a percentage of royalties to the original writers.The Rockerfly said:
I'm not sure you're following me. A direct sample is actually directly copying and pasting the part from Sweet Home Alabama. As in, he basically looped the original intro as it was on the CD. Kid Rock wrote none of the part you're referring to.The Rockerfly said:
EDIT: Ninja'd by zen
barryween said:
The piano is almost identical and same with the bass and guitar. Except there is no descending then ascending bass line but drums are identicalEcher123 said:
Although I still think the Kid Rock piece is a bigger rip off of Sweet Home Alabama.
It actually kind of sounds like it is missing alot now that I compare it to Sweet Home, maybe I've become spoiled
...Okay I get it but that makes me wonder even further how the fuck he got away with it, I assume he begged the band who wrote Sweet Home to have that bit?Gangster Amoeba said:I'm not sure you're following me. A direct sample is actually directly copying and pasting the part from Sweet Home Alabama. As in, he basically looped the original intro as it was on the CD. Kid Rock wrote none of the part you're referring to.The Rockerfly said:
EDIT: Ninja'd by zen
