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What about Marvin Berry calling his cousin Chuck from the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, and letting him steal Calvin Kline’s Johnny B Goode? I mean come on! It was blatant plagiarism.
That wasn’t stealing it was a nod to the movie because it was taken back then in the 50s when Marty was playing the song and it was meant to be a joke pay attention to the movie it was supposed to be the band were Marty saves them in back to the future he goes into his parents time doesn’t count sorry if you catch in the movie the one guy wasn’t able to play guitar because he cut his hand and it was banged so Marty step in because he was from the 80s and listen to the song Melvin who was chuck berry cousin got to listen to the song before it was released because Marty went back in time
A music teacher once told me that "it's all been done--there's nothing original anymore". A cousin once told me that one of my songs sounds like Coldplay.
Well, the guy from Smashing Pumpkins took the guy from Collective Soul to court for plagiarising one of his songs. To be fair, if one listens to both songs, the similarity is obvious. The Smasing Pumpkins song was released first. However, the guy from Collective Soul was able to prove that he had written _his_ song first. Consequently, despite the obvious similarities, neither plagiarised the other. It was simply a case of two people having the same idea. Likewise, _Dani_ _California_ and _Mary_ _Jane's_ _Last_ _Dance_ are really similar. But Tom Petty's take on it was basically "Well, if they copied my riff, it just proves mybriffvwas a good one". Consequently, he didin't pursue it.
I am pretty sure "Players are gonna play and haters are going to hate" was around before 1993. They were saying that in Wayans Brothers movies before that.
Same thing I thought. "Players gonna play, haters gonna hate"... not really inventing the wheel there. Pretty much universal slang at this point, hell, even at that point, back then. & I was old enough to use it amongst my friends when 3LW (aka 3 Little Women🙃) sang about it, that's how I know. It wasn't this cool new saying, it had been in the culture's lexicon for quite some time.
Swift did have a song that was a rip off of a British pop band called Right Said Fred 🇬🇧 I don't remember the name of her song, but the band simply said they were flattered by it and didn't pursue any legal action 📝
Are you kidding you you sample pr copy something you have to give royalty to the og.but she is too greedy as always .no wonder how she is an billionaire
@@DeepEnd10-y4g Except there was nothing original about the phrase when she released the song, it was already a common saying. It's been known that sometimes in her songwriting, she loves to use common phrases and twist them to give them a new meaning. She's a billionaire because she's been releasing music for 18 years and has been writing her own songs since she was thirteen years old. She's a hardworking woman who's earned her fame and wealth on her own, but God forbids women are successful by their own merits, right? You want to talk about greedy? How about suing and claiming you invented a universally known sentence? Be for real, and at least try to type your words better next time
@fangirl_43 hardwork or what . She is an industrial plant launched by her millionaire father and about music her wholeushc is due to spreading misandry through her victim songs on dozen exes . Stop playing victim card to defend her it's very old trick now
Let me know if this is my memory failing me; the songwriter for the flute portion fell into a depression shortly after (I'm sure there were other factors) and is no longer with us.
It's in the fadeout at the very end when the song is played. It's kind of a "blink and you miss it" moment. You'll catch it, but it's not much of an impact.
What about the opening bit from Le Marsellaise? Have you ever heard that played at a sporting event and blurted out 'Love,Love,Love!' by habit? Kinda interesting that they could have used that due to the 70 year copyright rule - presuming Le Marsellaise was written before 1880; France would have stung them bigtime otherwise.
I find it very ironic Pat Boone is griping about ANYONE ripped off music when he is notorious for just that in his entire career!! Also, anyone that saw Heretic knew about #1 already 😉
these days it is difficult to come up with an original song that hasn't been done before. There has been thousands of songs over the years. it was only a matter of time before songs are repeated.
Tiffany Darwish's remake of "I think we're alone now" was vastly more widely popular than the original by Tommy James & the Shondells. As a teen, I was smitten. It wasn't until much later that I learned it wasn't even her own creation.
Darwish's cover was very popular when I was a little kid and at that time, I hadn't even heard of Tommy James & the Shondells. I didn't hear of that band before I heard Billy Idol's "Mony Mony" cover, either.
Anyone Australian will know "Am I Ever Going To See Your Face Again", which was The Angels first hit and also a blatant steal from "Lonely Night" by Status Quo..... it took about 30 years before the bands worked out a new royalty deal.
And I can guarantee "Under Pressure" is being played thousands of times a day around the world on radio and playlists where Ice Ice Baby is being played ironically or accidentally on Spotify "80s Hip Hop Classics" playlists.
It’s great to hear OG shake it off again, both Miss Mojo and watch Mojo use the TV versions instead. shake it off TV sounds terrible. even though that’s not one of my favorite songs by her, I prefer to listen to the OG version compared to the TV version. OG shake it off is more bearable compared to shake it off TV.
Bloodhound Gang also “copied” the vocal melody of Depeche Mode’s “Sea of Sin”, also a b-side. The band members are fans of both bands and it was more of a conscious homage than a just plain plagiarism.
Finanancially no but artistically, of course .. The Avalanches namechecked about a thousand artists on their first record. Beastie Boys were in a similar situation with Paul's Boutique ... they paid some artists and missed others and also the Dust Brothers who produced the record had already stolen some beats which the band didn't know about so there was some-retro-payments and lawsuits. It seems like total garbage if Radiohead say they didn't know they were thieving from the Hollies, and even more with Lana Del Rey.... if you're interested....it's G / B / C/ Cmin
Larrikin are so out of touch they never would have known if it wasn't for hearing the Men At Work flute riff on Spicks and Specks and basically being told it was "kookaburra" whereas every person who heard 'Downunder' for a decade and a half before that had worked that out.... as well as finding it quite an affectionate little trifle. So well done Larrikin - blood on your hands.
I always thought Songman by Cashman and West from 1972, the melody sounds very like Snowbird written by Gene MacLellan and most famously sung by Anne Murray.
#1- I don't really hear it... #2- Yeah, I get that one. #3- Yep, and they admit it, so.... #4- I mean, the beat is kind of a standard "dance" beat, and the chords in the background are similar, but I wouldn't say its a rip off. #5- Other than similar words (which are not exactly unique...) no similarity at all.. nah. #6- I mean, it is admittedly a sample, but to call it a rip off? nah #7- Yeah, somewhat similar, but not enough to call it a rip off IMO #8- Yeah... in modern day terms, this would probably be a "cover" #9- Definitely a similar riff. Hard to deny that one. #10- meh... inspiration, yeah... Rip-off? Nah
Men at Work didnt rip off Kookaburra, it was purely unintentional and he wrote the melody because it fit the song. These sort of cases go through court all the time. How many times has Ed Sheeran been taken to court for this exact reason. U2 took someone to coourt over the sound of a snare drum this artist sampled from U2. There are only so many notes in the western musical scale so of course there will be overlaps and similar sounding songs.
I'm no Taylor Swift stan, but I think the thing with the 3LW suit is absurd in two ways. First off, I would be inclined to believe that she thought that the thing which would have been common vernacular when she wrote the song was just a common phrase. That said, even if you could prove she HAD heard the other song, at best they have her basically making a fair use reference to a phrase in a song that had already been in pop culture for over a decade (which is,then, STILL her just using "a common phrase") That suit was kind of equivelant to if Eminem decided to sue everyone that makes any kind of entertainment talking about someone being a stan, because the slang use of the phrase is based on his song.
It's a little tough for the audience to tell when this video doesn't even show the most similar parts of some of the songs. Like the Crocodile Rock part that most clearly ripped off the original song was the "La la la" part.
I knew most of these cause I love the legal side of sampling etc.. This is THE FIRST I have heard the Bad Touch and pet Shop boys one!!! Mind blown today. And I will never be able to listen to Radiohead/Hollies the same after watching Heretic.
Any claims that Taylor Swift ripped off "Players Gon Play" are laughable that they could cause someone to die laughing! Also, I wonder why Swift's parents kept her from watching TRL until 2002.
Kookaburra is a LOT older than the "kid's song" from recent times. In fact it goes back to 1932. Plus, it was a minor Top-40 hit in the 1960s here in America.
It took until the mid 2000s to see the similarity in that Kookaburra song? I recognized the tune the first time I heard Down Under, long before the 2000s and figured it was like public domain or something. I thought it was obvious and intentional
Down Under - Wavelength Harmonization. Adjusting the tempo is something you can't with the turntable pitch control. The Bad Touch - indie label without money up front. Surfing USA - Birth of a Gospel. I Got a Feeling - Grammy contending usage or the same damn equipment. Shake it Off - Scooter didn't make it. Words are rhetorical from the entourage. All you need is love - was made in 1967 nine years before the Copyright Act of 1976. 1790 was the first federal American law for copyright modeled after the Statute of Anne and other books in 1709. Crocodile Rock - potato potauto Lastly, we do multi stage festivals so rock back then was like an open mic.
The phrase “players are gonna play and haters are gonna hate” is a common saying and therefore can’t belong to any particular person or group, it’s like trying to copyright other common sayings like “don’t hate the player, hate the game”.
I don’t think you should be able to sue for a lot of these songs. Because you have to really go out of your way to listen and hear exact portions that are exactly the same now Led Zeppelin they stole that because they stole the melody and lyrics though I do enjoy Led Zeppelin’s version more anyway the Taylor Swift one didn’t make any sense and that number 10 one didn’t make any sense either paradise city and zero to hero the rift was similar, but not so much where it deserved a lawsuit I don’t think you should be able to sue for this unless you did the exact melody throughout the whole song or use the exact lyrics throughout the whole song.
It doesn’t make a good job of showing it here, but the flute part is a straight up lift of Kookaburra. Obviously it’s intentional as Kookaburra is an iconic Australian children’s song being referenced in a pop song about Australia.
Weird Al asks if he could parody the artists song before he does it but technically he doesn’t need to since parody falls under different grey areas. Just try googling Barbie girl for a good start
Well if Taylor wasn’t allowed to watch mtv during that time then that’s it that proves she’s never heard it even in her adulthood when the internet took off
Players gonna play is a common phrase, ask Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac...who by 3LW's view should should sue them.....the taylor swift track sounds nothing like it 💁♀️
In our current era. I'm not surprised anymore if an artist receive a plagiarize issue when he\she just made a hum or tune out of his creative head not knowing other past creator did the same tune. MEH!!!! For not so creative mind this might be the issue if their creation became popular and people all over internet started noticing similarities in the past.......
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You are completely wrong about Shake it Off. It was not a rip off.
What about Marvin Berry calling his cousin Chuck from the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, and letting him steal Calvin Kline’s Johnny B Goode?
I mean come on! It was blatant plagiarism.
That wasn’t stealing it was a nod to the movie because it was taken back then in the 50s when Marty was playing the song and it was meant to be a joke pay attention to the movie it was supposed to be the band were Marty saves them in back to the future he goes into his parents time doesn’t count sorry if you catch in the movie the one guy wasn’t able to play guitar because he cut his hand and it was banged so Marty step in because he was from the 80s and listen to the song Melvin who was chuck berry cousin got to listen to the song before it was released because Marty went back in time
@@kaylakain6039 Really? You really don't get it? Really?
I was just amazed that he could hear it so cleanly over that 1950s telephone line.
ROTFLMAO!
@@kaylakain6039 Please tell us you're joking and that you're just playing along.
A music teacher once told me that "it's all been done--there's nothing original anymore". A cousin once told me that one of my songs sounds like Coldplay.
"A cousin once told me that one of my songs sounds like Coldplay."
Damn, sick burn!!
I think your music teacher was ripping off the Bible mate...
Well, the guy from Smashing Pumpkins took the guy from Collective Soul to court for plagiarising one of his songs. To be fair, if one listens to both songs, the similarity is obvious. The Smasing Pumpkins song was released first. However, the guy from Collective Soul was able to prove that he had written _his_ song first. Consequently, despite the obvious similarities, neither plagiarised the other. It was simply a case of two people having the same idea. Likewise, _Dani_ _California_ and _Mary_ _Jane's_ _Last_ _Dance_ are really similar. But Tom Petty's take on it was basically "Well, if they copied my riff, it just proves mybriffvwas a good one". Consequently, he didin't pursue it.
Ouch! That must have hurt!!!
I am pretty sure "Players are gonna play and haters are going to hate" was around before 1993. They were saying that in Wayans Brothers movies before that.
Wait, wait. Hold up. A white singing group in the 60s ripped off Chuck Berry? Didn't see that coming.
Or a legendary artist was ripped off by another artist as has been the case many times.
90's boy bands ripped of boyz 2 men
Milli vanilla did image marketing and lip syncing before it was more streamlined and acceptable
HA!! 😁
Players going to play is hugely common. Not a rip off.
The Taylor Swift song isn’t a rip off 3LW. The writers of the 3LW song didn’t invent the saying “Players gonna play”. That one is so stupid.
Same thing I thought. "Players gonna play, haters gonna hate"... not really inventing the wheel there. Pretty much universal slang at this point, hell, even at that point, back then.
& I was old enough to use it amongst my friends when 3LW (aka 3 Little Women🙃) sang about it, that's how I know. It wasn't this cool new saying, it had been in the culture's lexicon for quite some time.
Swift did have a song that was a rip off of a British pop band called Right Said Fred 🇬🇧
I don't remember the name of her song, but the band simply said they were flattered by it and didn't pursue any legal action 📝
Agreed
It’s a rip-off. It’s so obvious.
I said the same. I'm old enough to know 3LW didn't invent the phrase
Ok...I somehow seriously never knew that Bad Touch sampled the Pet Shop Boys.
Same😂
Me neither. And it's obvious if you hear them together!
Same
I'm not the biggest T Swift fan but the 3LW lawsuit was bogus.
No doubt it's because the line went viral and she just pulled it out of the "oral tradition".
Are you kidding you you sample pr copy something you have to give royalty to the og.but she is too greedy as always .no wonder how she is an billionaire
@@DeepEnd10-y4g Except there was nothing original about the phrase when she released the song, it was already a common saying. It's been known that sometimes in her songwriting, she loves to use common phrases and twist them to give them a new meaning.
She's a billionaire because she's been releasing music for 18 years and has been writing her own songs since she was thirteen years old. She's a hardworking woman who's earned her fame and wealth on her own, but God forbids women are successful by their own merits, right? You want to talk about greedy? How about suing and claiming you invented a universally known sentence? Be for real, and at least try to type your words better next time
@fangirl_43 hardwork or what . She is an industrial plant launched by her millionaire father and about music her wholeushc is due to spreading misandry through her victim songs on dozen exes . Stop playing victim card to defend her it's very old trick now
@fangirl_43 she can even survive without playing woman card in her career .
I wouldn't say All You Need Is Love is a ripoff for a 5 second sample.
Ask the Verve how that went with the Rolling Stones.
Learn-Somethin'-New-Everyday Dept.: I just assumed "Kookaburra" was public domain...
Meanwhile the writer of Kookaburra didn't bat an eye...the company who bought the rights for her heirs filed to suit.
So did I, & I’m Australian. I believe the show that brought up the similarities was Spicks, & Specks.
Let me know if this is my memory failing me; the songwriter for the flute portion fell into a depression shortly after (I'm sure there were other factors) and is no longer with us.
Creep ripping off the Hollies seems like a big stretch to me.
I thought so too at first but there are similarities when you hear the Hollies song in its entirety.
I'm a HUGE Led Zeppelin fan and I bet one of their hit songs are on this video, right?
7:55 ...!
With the exception of the Chuck berry/Beach boys one, these are all a stretch and a frivolous lawsuit.
I don't hear a single thing in "All You Need Is Love" that sounds like the Glenn Miller song. They both have horns. That's it.
It's in the fadeout at the very end when the song is played. It's kind of a "blink and you miss it" moment. You'll catch it, but it's not much of an impact.
@@jonnuanez7183 Kinda like "She loves you, yeah yeah yeah, she'd love to, yeah yeah yeah" ?
What about the opening bit from Le Marsellaise? Have you ever heard that played at a sporting event and blurted out 'Love,Love,Love!' by habit? Kinda interesting that they could have used that due to the 70 year copyright rule - presuming Le Marsellaise was written before 1880; France would have stung them bigtime otherwise.
I find it very ironic Pat Boone is griping about ANYONE ripped off music when he is notorious for just that in his entire career!!
Also, anyone that saw Heretic knew about #1 already 😉
Yesssss!!!
He's the type of people that can do it to everybody and it's cool, until it's done with him, than it's an issue.
Pat Boone didn't sue. The writer of the song did.
I cant hear any similarities in between Paradise City and the song that"inspired" it
Completely agree. I just don't see it at all
Me either
I always thought the marvin gaye/robine thicke suit was BS
these days it is difficult to come up with an original song that hasn't been done before. There has been thousands of songs over the years. it was only a matter of time before songs are repeated.
As Led Zeppelin said: “it’s only plagiarism if you get caught”
and they got caught at least a dozen times
It's funny when a band calls you out for copying their song and later found out they stole that song from another band.🤣🤣🤣
Tiffany Darwish's remake of "I think we're alone now" was vastly more widely popular than the original by Tommy James & the Shondells. As a teen, I was smitten. It wasn't until much later that I learned it wasn't even her own creation.
Darwish's cover was very popular when I was a little kid and at that time, I hadn't even heard of Tommy James & the Shondells. I didn't hear of that band before I heard Billy Idol's "Mony Mony" cover, either.
Anyone Australian will know "Am I Ever Going To See Your Face Again", which was The Angels first hit and also a blatant steal from "Lonely Night" by Status Quo..... it took about 30 years before the bands worked out a new royalty deal.
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Waka Waka - Shakira
The "Shake it off" beat is definitely a rip off of a popular 90's rap song. IYKYK
WatchMojo you forgot to do your homework you forgot the one hit wonder vanilla ice ripping off Queen ice ice baby original under pressure
It's been covered in previous videos.
And I can guarantee "Under Pressure" is being played thousands of times a day around the world on radio and playlists where Ice Ice Baby is being played ironically or accidentally on Spotify "80s Hip Hop Classics" playlists.
It’s great to hear OG shake it off again, both Miss Mojo and watch Mojo use the TV versions instead. shake it off TV sounds terrible. even though that’s not one of my favorite songs by her, I prefer to listen to the OG version compared to the TV version. OG shake it off is more bearable compared to shake it off TV.
I am a massive Pet Shop Boys fan and more than passingly familiar with In the Night, and I had no idea about this!
So you are accusing people that have been cleared of wrongdoing, you just decided they were guilty anyway? That's defamation...
Bloodhound Gang also “copied” the vocal melody of Depeche Mode’s “Sea of Sin”, also a b-side. The band members are fans of both bands and it was more of a conscious homage than a just plain plagiarism.
Hey Monday - Homecoming sounds so much like Bangles and Simon & Garfunkel - Hazy shade of winter
Holy shit. I never put this together. I love both. Homecoming has a special place in my heart.
You should have added more context to "Surfin USA" plagiarism. It was a period where Black musicians were seriously riped off.
Is a sample that’s paid for really a rip off?
Finanancially no but artistically, of course .. The Avalanches namechecked about a thousand artists on their first record. Beastie Boys were in a similar situation with Paul's Boutique ... they paid some artists and missed others and also the Dust Brothers who produced the record had already stolen some beats which the band didn't know about so there was some-retro-payments and lawsuits. It seems like total garbage if Radiohead say they didn't know they were thieving from the Hollies, and even more with Lana Del Rey.... if you're interested....it's G / B / C/ Cmin
1:21 Oh should I mention Greg Ham committed suicide after the trial? READ THE ROOM!
Larrikin are so out of touch they never would have known if it wasn't for hearing the Men At Work flute riff on Spicks and Specks and basically being told it was "kookaburra" whereas every person who heard 'Downunder' for a decade and a half before that had worked that out.... as well as finding it quite an affectionate little trifle. So well done Larrikin - blood on your hands.
I always thought Songman by Cashman and West from 1972, the melody sounds very like Snowbird written by Gene MacLellan and most famously sung by Anne Murray.
Nothing is original anymore, sometimes I play music triva I have to hear some of the lyrics first just to know what the song is .
There is nothing in All You Need Is Love about Glenn Miller)))) Well, both of'em get'em brass, yup
So Taylor Swift can use lyrics but Sisqo got sued for only saying "living la vida loca" and made a whopping $32. Oh ok
#1- I don't really hear it...
#2- Yeah, I get that one.
#3- Yep, and they admit it, so....
#4- I mean, the beat is kind of a standard "dance" beat, and the chords in the background are similar, but I wouldn't say its a rip off.
#5- Other than similar words (which are not exactly unique...) no similarity at all.. nah.
#6- I mean, it is admittedly a sample, but to call it a rip off? nah
#7- Yeah, somewhat similar, but not enough to call it a rip off IMO
#8- Yeah... in modern day terms, this would probably be a "cover"
#9- Definitely a similar riff. Hard to deny that one.
#10- meh... inspiration, yeah... Rip-off? Nah
Men at Work didnt rip off Kookaburra, it was purely unintentional and he wrote the melody because it fit the song. These sort of cases go through court all the time. How many times has Ed Sheeran been taken to court for this exact reason. U2 took someone to coourt over the sound of a snare drum this artist sampled from U2. There are only so many notes in the western musical scale so of course there will be overlaps and similar sounding songs.
I'm no Taylor Swift stan, but I think the thing with the 3LW suit is absurd in two ways. First off, I would be inclined to believe that she thought that the thing which would have been common vernacular when she wrote the song was just a common phrase. That said, even if you could prove she HAD heard the other song, at best they have her basically making a fair use reference to a phrase in a song that had already been in pop culture for over a decade (which is,then, STILL her just using "a common phrase") That suit was kind of equivelant to if Eminem decided to sue everyone that makes any kind of entertainment talking about someone being a stan, because the slang use of the phrase is based on his song.
It's a little tough for the audience to tell when this video doesn't even show the most similar parts of some of the songs. Like the Crocodile Rock part that most clearly ripped off the original song was the "La la la" part.
I knew most of these cause I love the legal side of sampling etc.. This is THE FIRST I have heard the Bad Touch and pet Shop boys one!!! Mind blown today. And I will never be able to listen to Radiohead/Hollies the same after watching Heretic.
Any claims that Taylor Swift ripped off "Players Gon Play" are laughable that they could cause someone to die laughing! Also, I wonder why Swift's parents kept her from watching TRL until 2002.
Kookaburra is a LOT older than the "kid's song" from recent times. In fact it goes back to 1932. Plus, it was a minor Top-40 hit in the 1960s here in America.
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery from the incompetent." is the full proverb
Kind of funny that most of the songs that were ripped off aren’t really known at all.
There should be some sort of law saying you can only make claims of this sort a set amount of years after the release.
Will.I .Am is notorious for ripping off others and not giving credit.
It took until the mid 2000s to see the similarity in that Kookaburra song? I recognized the tune the first time I heard Down Under, long before the 2000s and figured it was like public domain or something. I thought it was obvious and intentional
John being knighted is a sad moment in music history 😡
Down Under sounds nothing like Kookaburra. That lawsuit was the most appalling bullshit.
The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang is a hilarious song!
Look at the songs on that Hollies cover. It is insane that that those are all by the same band.
I think I might be tone deaf, cause I don’t hear the similarities in a few of these
Down Under - Wavelength Harmonization. Adjusting the tempo is something you can't with the turntable pitch control.
The Bad Touch - indie label without money up front.
Surfing USA - Birth of a Gospel.
I Got a Feeling - Grammy contending usage or the same damn equipment.
Shake it Off - Scooter didn't make it. Words are rhetorical from the entourage.
All you need is love - was made in 1967 nine years before the Copyright Act of 1976. 1790 was the first federal American law for copyright modeled after the Statute of Anne and other books in 1709.
Crocodile Rock - potato potauto
Lastly, we do multi stage festivals so rock back then was like an open mic.
Musician A sues Musician B for plagiarising his lyric "I love you " in his songs. 😄
LZ The most successful original cover band.
Imo, artists rip each other off all the time, so why even sue?? some people are just money hungry is all.
They did Men At Work so dirty
I don’t like Taylor swift but that claim was bullshit. Those terms were common back in that era of time.
Will Smith Men In Black (1997) Ripped Off Patrice Rushen Forget Me Nots (1982)
It’s a sample.
No, it sampled it and the producers gave writing credits.
The creep one is a stretch
Not surprised about I Gotta Feeling all Wil I Am does is rip off songs 😂
All of these are either intentional tributes or completely bogus claims.
The phrase “players are gonna play and haters are gonna hate” is a common saying and therefore can’t belong to any particular person or group, it’s like trying to copyright other common sayings like “don’t hate the player, hate the game”.
I don’t think you should be able to sue for a lot of these songs. Because you have to really go out of your way to listen and hear exact portions that are exactly the same now Led Zeppelin they stole that because they stole the melody and lyrics though I do enjoy Led Zeppelin’s version more anyway the Taylor Swift one didn’t make any sense and that number 10 one didn’t make any sense either paradise city and zero to hero the rift was similar, but not so much where it deserved a lawsuit I don’t think you should be able to sue for this unless you did the exact melody throughout the whole song or use the exact lyrics throughout the whole song.
"Heartbeat Song" by Kelly Clarkson, rip-off of "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World
Give me “The Middle” over every Kelly Clarkson song every day, including “Heartbeat Song”!
I knew about number 8 from memory. Number 6 too.
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Neither the will I am or the Taylor swift songs are copy’s! At best you could say the the “originals” sound similar! At best!😊
Also, the song Kokaburra is horrible and Down Under is a million times better.
Taylor believes men can become pregnant 😂
I must be tone deaf as most of these I don’t get 😢
Men at work got stiffed on their song
I dont like of listen to Taylor Swift, but I think she either ripped off or sampled other artists to make her own crappy songs🙉
If the rip-off songs became more popular than the original songs, then that just means the rip-offs did something right that the originals didn't.
But then goes to argue. The band saw something in it to copy it. So ??
@dannjosecabredo6127 You could say that no music is truly original. All musicians had to get their inspiration from somewhere.
@ShayTheValiant agreed. All the way back the first sentient thought about sound youre right
Damn straight.
Racism and sexism play too big of a role for that to be 100% true. Big Mama Thompson’s OG Hound Dog really is much better than Elvis’ rip-off.
I don’t see any similarities between number 10
They are both songs. You don't find that a little suspicious and unoriginal?
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then why dont you go listen to them both
Went and listened to both. I don't hear the similarity
It doesn’t make a good job of showing it here, but the flute part is a straight up lift of Kookaburra.
Obviously it’s intentional as Kookaburra is an iconic Australian children’s song being referenced in a pop song about Australia.
I thought this was an original 😅
Lately Jellyroll is guilty
Wtf is a jellyroll?!🙄🙄🙄
Lonley Road samples John Denver's "Country Road," but I'm pretty sure J Roll & MGK credited Denver.
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Oooo, y'all so gonna get sued 😂
Weird Al Yankovic
Weird Al asks if he could parody the artists song before he does it but technically he doesn’t need to since parody falls under different grey areas. Just try googling Barbie girl for a good start
Swear watch mojo uploads this same vid like once a month lmaooo
Like all songs lf her this taylor swift song was shit too
Number 10 nowhere near a rip-off, why you tryna shame a children's song?
Well if Taylor wasn’t allowed to watch mtv during that time then that’s it that proves she’s never heard it even in her adulthood when the internet took off
They do say imitation is the highest form of flattery. 🎉
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Most songs sound like some other song. There just aren’t that many chords to select.
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Players gonna play is a common phrase, ask Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac...who by 3LW's view should should sue them.....the taylor swift track sounds nothing like it 💁♀️
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nearly every rap song thats ever existed is a complete rip off of something else and almost always with stolen beats
It's called sampling, a well known practice that also takes place across EDM and it's not stolen if properly credited
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@@MrDilkington15 WTF is up with that response. Unhinged!!
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Any Taylor Swift songs involving her ex's.
I think Taylor Swidr sucks but she didnt rip off that shitty song
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In our current era. I'm not surprised anymore if an artist receive a plagiarize issue when he\she just made a hum or tune out of his creative head not knowing other past creator did the same tune. MEH!!!! For not so creative mind this might be the issue if their creation became popular and people all over internet started noticing similarities in the past.......