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"Sweet Little Sixteen" (Chuck Berry) vs. "Surfing USA" (Beach Boys). "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" (Isley Brothers) vs. "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" (Michael Bolton). "Taurus" (Spirit) vs. "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin). "Got to Give It Up" (Marvin Gaye) vs. "Blurred Lines" (Robin Thicke). 😂 "Run Through the Jungle" (CCR) vs. "Old Man Down the Road" (John Fogerty, main songwriter for CCR).
Yep. KJ slightly ripped off a riff by the Mighty Damned, who themselves had taken that bass line from someone else, who might even… (with all due respect to all those bands I love !)
There's an episode of Silicon Valley that touches on that. There's a sleazy lawyer that buys the rights to old songs then sues bands that end up having similar melodies and brags about it. He ends up buying a really broad tech copyright and tries to sue the protagonist of the series, so the protagonist uses an old program he wrote to scan some of the songs the guy had won court battles with. After the scan he found even older songs that were similar to the ones the guy owned the rights to and he threatened to to notify the rights owners of those even older songs about him profiting off of similar songs and the guy finally dropped his lawsuit.
@@benjamingraham8640 The Rolling Stones took 100 percent of what the Verve is making off of “Bitter Sweet Symphony” and they ,the Rolling Stones, had said that they “borrowed” or “adapted” the Melody and Lyrics of the Chorus from a Gospel Song that was recorded in the 50s 😂 so they “adapted” ideas from another song then said that someone else “TOOK!!!” Their ideas 🤦🏻♂️😂 I wonder if they’re paying The Staple Singers for the money they’re making off of the Verve? 🤔 🤷🏻♂️😂
@@benjamingraham8640 go down a few comments and you’ll see someone commenting that The Killing Joke took or “adapted” their riff from The Dammed and sued Nirvana for taking their Riff on Come As You Are…that they “adapted” from The Dammed 😂 I wonder if they’re paying The Dammed any money if they made money off of Nirvana?
To be honest, I think a certain amount of unintentional Plagiarism is unavoidable; there are only so many notes and only so many ways they can be put together.
And you just can't remember everything you have heard during your life, not consciously, but a lot of that will be there anyway on the subconscious level. And when somebody is writing a new song, that may come up. Or is probably very likely to come up. With luck it's not enough to create a full copy but will be just bits and pieces that will come together into something at least sort of new. With bad luck... And as we go forward in time we are probably going to get more and more of these type of cases.
If they don't change the plagiarism rule from 5 consecutive notes played that are identical to 5 consecutive notes played on another song to 10 consecutive notes, soon there will be all kinds of people in music suing each other.
especially when it's over something that has entered the pop culture zeitgeist, like 3LW trying to sue taylor swift over "players gonna play, haters gonna hate." that's just slang at this point, are they also gonna sue BTS for using it in "mic drop"?
You mean you didn't include the Label that sued Fogerty - for sounding like CCR (which he was the lead singer and main songwriter for)? In other words, they sued him for SOUNDING LIKE HIMSELF. He won the case just by pointing that simple fact out.
@@thomashumphrey48 The original lawsuit took less than 2 years to resolve. The additional time and hearings ending up in the Supreme Court was over the award of attorney fees.
25 years ago I worked as a Personal Protection Agent for Paul McCartney while he was in New Orleans, Louisiana. I found him to be a very nice man and I even got to sing Irish Folks Songs along with him at a Irish Pub in the French Quarter. I can't sing but I can say I sang with a Beetle !
She owned up to it well before it was released and made a deal with the band, but Dua Lupa's "Break My Heart" used much of the INXS song, "Need You Tonight". She said she only realized when she heard the recorded version and INXS was completely agreeable to her offer of money and credit on the album. To me it's refreshing to hear about some honesty in the business.
@@HariSeldon913 one of those TH-camrs that does the mashup songs should make that. It could be Another Heart Bites The Dust Tonight by Queen Lipa featuring Freddie Hutchence.
Thank you, it's on the only Damned CD I don't have and I never remember the song's name. Though The Damned themselves admitted they nicked it somewhere too !
An easy solution, just limit copyright of music to 20 years, because as Ed Sheeran showed holding a claim to a few cords that are repeated is absolutely idiotic
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Limit copyright, hard. Death + 70 is beyond crazy, copyright until death of creator is the most I'd go for, but it's already too much.
Rapper Ice T recently asked David Gilmore from Pink Floyd if he could borrow the melody for Comfortably Numb but write new lyrics. David Gilmore actually ended up playing on the song for the album.
Didn't know that, thank you ! Just like Luke from 2-live Crew asked M. Springsteen the right to use his song as "banned in the USA", and the answer was a very enthusiastic "F……… yeah !" ;)
Coldplay wanted to ask permission to use the riff from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love" for their song "Talk", and had their management contact Kraftwerk's management, expecting some densely worded legal agreement in reply. Instead they got a personal handwritten note from Florian Schneider saying, "Yes, that's OK."
"Joe Satriani’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Coldplay has been settled, Satriani’s rep tells Billboard. Satriani sued the British soft rockers, claiming that “Viva La Vida” ripped off his song “If I Could Fly.” The legal dispute was resolved with an undisclosed settlement between the two parties."
I was confused when "Viva la Vida" was compared to "Songs I Didn't Write" in this video. As soon as "Viva la Vida" was mentioned I assumed they were going to mention the lawsuit with Satriani. The melody from Viva la Vida is very similar to part of the guitar solo in Satriani's "If I Could Fly".
I’ve always liked “Roar” way more than “Brave” as someone who doesn’t do much modern pop, I feel like the former was made for me. The latter doesn’t strike the right notes, at least it doesn’t with me.
@@Jeremiah_Rivers76 Brave was written by Sara Bareilles about a friend that was scared and in the closet. I think it has a much more significant meaning than Roar, which is just another Dr Luke and Max Martin product.
It's a different number of dings. Theirs goes ding ding ding dah-dah ding ding, and his goes ding ding ding dah-dah DING ding ding. Source: Rob Van Winkle 🙃
The most interesting case is where a lesser-known song was ripped off twice. Carol Douglas performed the song "Midnight Love Affair" in 1976. Since then, k.d. lang has recorded "Constant Craving", and The Rolling Stones did "Anybody Seen My Baby" - both of which have sound-alike lead vocals. The Rolling Stones did get accused of ripping someone off, but *not* Carol Douglas. No, they were accused of ripping off k.d. lang. It's sad how old tracks get forgotten so soon.
Huey Lewis passed on writing the music for Ghostbusters, then the studio that produced Ghostbusters told Ray Parker "write something that sound like Huey Lewis." That's why it sounds like that.
Hollywood clones actors and actresses all the time. "Get me a Robert Redford type. Thus Brad Pitt's career was born." Find me a Darren lookalike for Bewitched. Dude found. They don't sue however. Anybody know the difference between Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum? Who played MacArthur?
@@DaryMatera You do know that a person who looks like someone else is not the same as ripping off intellectual property that somebody made using the creative process.
@@butcherboy2008 Why not? It's the same theory only in a different genre. You are basically ripping off someone's well designed image and likeness. Same thing college football players fought hard to achieve.
@@mrmarkleybio6272 Doesn't ring a bell. The same actor wasn't in Back 2? Seems he was. That would be a tough lawsuit to win as actors are interchanged all the time. There's been what, a half dozen Batman's and Spiderman's and counting so far.
Some of these weren't the original though. I Want a New Drug by Huey Lewis from 1983 sounds similar to Pop Muzik by M from 1979. Eighties by Killing Joke from 1984 sounds similar to Life Goes On by The Damned from 1982. Also, I think two songs that came out the same year that sounds similar could come off as a coincidence IMO since it's likely they didn't know about the similar sounding song when recording it.
“Mulheres” - Toninho Geraes e Martinho da Vila vs “Million Years Ago” - Adele “Seville” - Luiz Bonfá vs “Somebody That I Used To Know” - Gotye “What To Do” - Vanusa vs “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” - Black Sabbath "Maria Moita” - Carlos Lyra vs “Smoke on the Water” - Deep Purple
Funny thing about Katy Perry’s “Roar”: When she performed that song atop an animatronic lioness, I seriously wanted her to do a Pokémon inspired version of that song where she pulled off a Malva cosplay. Given that she did a Pokémon inspired song with “Electric”, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch if she did that.
When I first heard California Gurls by her it was familiar. The obscure song, Google I’ll Be your Friend By Robert Owens, The Glamorous mix version. Go to 1:04 and then go to Perry’s song.
@@jmac3977 With brings up The Beach Boys doing the original titled California Girls, different song however, but David Lee Roth did it word for word one assumes with permission. Roth and Van Halen also did Roy Orbinson's Pretty Woman and a number of other covers. Assuming with permission?
No way in hell is Al Yankovic ever better than Michael Jackson. He definitely got rich off making fun of Michael Jackson's music. But That's not better, that's a Saturday live comedy skit with money behind it. Weird Al is a comedian, NOT a real Musician 💩
@@dearcopeebles5717 Actually, he was capable of real musician work - but he CHOSE to be a parody artist (for the most part). And he didn't just do that with some of MJ's songs, Queen let him make "Another One Rides The Bus", Nirvana allowed "Smells Like Nirvana", among MANY other VERY well known examples.
@@bricefleckenstein9666 "Actually" No he was always a Comedy writer that made comedy songs. way back in the 1970s, he would sell his songs to radio comedy shows but never made any real money. Until he started doing Music parodies of popular music aka, Beat It First big success. He did NOT get permission at first. there was a big deal about it back in the day, but Michael Jackson didn't want to sue him Because he thought Eat It was funny. The Studio, CBS records wanted to bring a lawsuit against Al at the time.. My point was, that comparing Weird Al's talent to Michael Jackson's and saying Al was "Better" is like comparing Mark Wahlberg's acting abilities to Danial Day-Lewis and saying Wahlberg should have his awards. no REAL comparison there
@@ScarysReviews A sample legally approved by the artist is not a rip off either. Shared royalties are the main factor. Unfortunately people are far to uninformed to understand the difference.
Sampling was uncredited until the Turtles sued De La Soul. After that, If a sample contains a certain number of seconds, the original artist is credited and royalties are due. Covers and tributes are a reinterpretation of the entire song and royalties are paid to the writer.
The worst case of out right stealing a song was vanilla ice , ice ice stealing, from bowie and queen under pressure, then trying to defend it by saying it was different in an interview, blatant ripoff that he lost and had to pay
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!! I CAN'T STAND HOW Vanilla Ice says " NO NO NO NO NO.... THERE'S goes dun dun dun dun nun dun duh... MINE goes dun dun dun dun duh nun duh duh tisk, it's TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!!"
I heard a musician give a story how she accidentally plagiarized her own song. When she went to play her “new song” for her husband, he said “yah, you already wrote that a few years ago.
You should have Kid Rock All Summer Long Vs. Warren Zevon Werewolves of London and Lynynd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama on the list and Robin Thickle Blurred Lines Vs. Marvin Gaye Got to Give It Up.
Really bad presentation. Play the music back to back so you can clearly hear the similarities and then do the narration afterwards. Don't do it in between and thereby interrupt the listener trying to hear the similarities.
1:44 Also Coldplay vs. Kraftwerk with "Talk" vs. "Computer Love." They called it an "homage" afterwards but c'mon fam; it's the same progression outright & the hook is literally identical. 🤷🤷♂🤷♀
Listen to Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” starting at the lyrics “I’m a blonde bimbo girl in a fantasy world”. Then listen to the chorus of “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” by Leann Rimes. I’m convinced Aqua is overdue royalties for having their melody sampled and slowed down by Leann Rimes.
the hilarious element to the "my sweet lord" suit was that the money was to go to the owner of the original copyright- turns out the publishing rights had been purchased by Harrison some years before. he had to cut a cheque to a company he owns... and Led Zeppelin "borrowed" a lot without attributions or payouts...
@@DaryMatera they had enough awareness of the industry that "presumption" is ridiculous. they were willing to protect their own copyrights and royalties.
Number 4 in the list: "I want a new drug"-(Huey Lewis), and "Ghostbusters"-(Ray Parker Jr), but no-one remembers a one-hit wonder that came out in 1979..."Pop Music" by a band called "M". They could have sued both Huey Lewis AND Ray Parker, because their song has a similar rhythm and riff to those songs!
I had "Pop Music" on 45 back in the day. Still know it by heart. I disagree that they'd have any claim on the other 2 songs. It has barely any similar sounds to the other 2.
@@mneugent7658 I was referring more to the rhythm of the song more than the sounds compared to the others. They also all have a similar chord progression 1st(root chord),then 4th and 5th notes in music theory. Needless to say, they were first anyway!
A lot of songs sound alike because by 2030 we have invented every single melody we can think of and the arrangements follow a similar pattern that is pleasing to the ears in every genre so some of these songs waren't a rip off, it happened by accident.
Interesting. I am a massive Nirvana fan. Read all of the biographies, had maybe a hundred different bootlegs and unlicensed versions of songs back in the day. Come As You Are is probably my least favorite Nirvana song. It might just be the effects on the guitar. Too much chorus and flange.
In 1963, Chuck Berry's lawyers threatened to sue the Beach Boys for copyright infringement on their song "Surfin' U.S.A.". The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson wrote the song as a tribute to Berry, inspired by Berry's 1958 song "Sweet Little Sixteen".
Roar happened at the correct moment in my life where I can't make myself see it as the overrated slop it is, same for a couple other singles from that time. Emotionally for me it's on the same level as Brave.
@carmelafernando7823 Brave was written as a message to a special person in mind and communicated that solidarity. Roar is supposed to be a very generalized empowerment tune that wasn't geared towards any particular group. Intent is different between the two, honestly.
Once I was doodling on my bass guitar, and I started playing something familiar. After thinking about I realized it was the theme from the TV show Night Court. Never once tried to learn it. Just came out of nowhere. Most of these are similar circumstances. Except Ghostbusters, that was intentional.
A correction for you. Huey did the song for Back to the Future because he figured he might as well, after the debacle with Ghostbusters where he turned them down and they just stole the song anyway. It had nothing to do with worrying about how well the Ghostbusters track did.
"Let's Wait Awhile" by Janet Jackson has been described as "bearing striking similarities" to the 1975 song "Daisy Jane" by the band America. Reportedly on hearing "Let's Wait Awhile" on a car radio in 1987, the road manager for America pulled over at a phone booth to alert Gerry Beckley to the evident debt of Jackson's track to Beckley's composition. Beckley eventually reached an out-of-court settlement with Jackson and her co-writers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, thus preempting litigation for plagiarism
When I didn't see it earlier in the list, I fully expected to see the Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' and the orchestral version of the Rolling Stone's 'The Last Time' to be number one.
Regarding Coldplay's "Viva la Vida", Joe Satriani had actually sued even more plagiarism about that track than Creaky Boards' with "If I Could Fly". Also, you could consider these: The Hollies (The Air That I Breathe) vs Radiohead (Creep) vs Lana del Rey (Get Free). Marvin Gaye (Got to Give It Up) vs Robin Thicke (Blurred Lines). Rolling Stones (The Last Time) vs The Verve (Bitter Sweet Symphony).
Except it wouldn't be "The Hollies vs. Radiohead...". The Hollies version of that song is the second cover of Albert Hammond's (yes, the father of The Strokes lead guitar player) original. Phil Everly beat The Hollies to the punch in covering it as well.
@@lessismore8533 If you don't know, that song was actually from Bolivia by Los Kjarkas (Llorando se fue). It was later covered by Brazillian singer Marcia Ferreira and remixed by Kaoma (France) under the name "Lambada", which, at that time, became a hit in music chart. Also, I heard that one of Christina Aguilera's track, "Feel This Moment", also took its tune from a-ha's "Take on Me".
The verses in Shania Twain’s “Man I Feel Like a Woman” has the same progression as the verses in Aerosmith’s “Uncle Salty.” Everyone and their mother has heard the former while only people who have listened to Aerosmith’s Toys in the Attic album have heard the latter. And two songs that I recently noticed have the same chord progression are Disturbed’s “Stricken” and Sean Paul’s “Give it up to Me,” both of which were released in 2005.
Men at Works' track "down under" from 1981 was successfully sued over copyright infringement of an Australian kids song "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree" written by Marion Sinclair. It's 80's music but highly recognisable.
That one annoys me because it didn't take into account the difference between the *song* and the *arrangement* -- or the song and the *recording* . The "Kookaburra" song is quoted in the *arrangement* of that one *recording* of "Down Under", but it's not part of the song's main melody or lyric (meaning, the song). I could sit at a piano and play and sing a cover version of "Down Under" and "Kookaburra" would be nowhere in it. It's not part of the SONGWRITING. I wish Colin Hay had sat in court with his acoustic guitar and played "Down Under" all the way through, and then the defense could have asked, "Did you recognize that song? Where in it was 'Kookaburra'?" (Nowhere.) I can see the heirs of Marion Sinclair getting a cut of that specific *recording*, but not of the songwriting, with a songwriting credit.
@@niemann3942 In the video of 'Down Under', the flute bit playing 'Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree' is played by the flautist while sitting in an old gum tree. I suspect the band just thought the old kids song was in the public domain, if they thought about it at all.
@@MartinInBC Yes, I remember that in the video, and I remember the band saying they did think it was just an old, uncopyrighted song. But again, that has nothing to do with my point, which is that "Kookaburra" is a part of the arrangement of that one recording -- not a part of the song or songwriting (which is usually defined as melody and lyrics). If you sat and sang "Down Under" a capella, everyone would recognize it and know what song you were doing, but "Kookaburra" wouldn't be anywhere in it. Another example is this cover version. No one can say it's not "Down Under" ... but where is "Kookaburra"? Nowhere. It's not a part of the melody or the lyrics. It's not a part of the SONG. th-cam.com/video/ZNB8nHtVX8g/w-d-xo.html
Funny thing is, Chuck Berry based his guitar parts on what his piano player was playing while they were jamming, which were standard blues riffs anyway. His piano player got mad about not getting any writing credits.
Honorable mention of wrestling themes, DDPs WCW theme ripoff of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, Chris Jericho’s theme ripoff of Pearl Jam Even Flow, Raven’s theme ripoff of Nirvana’s Come as you are, Christian’s theme ripoff of Evenescence My Last Breath.
"Dazed and Confused" by (again) Led Zeppelin and the same titled song by Jake Holmes. Jake Holmes went on the write commercial "jingles" and eventually got "credit" for the apparent similarities (The song is credited to Jimmy Page but with a note that it was "inspired" by Jake Holmes).
It would be cool if you'd play the parts of the song that actually sound the same. For example, with "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine" you played completely different parts of the song. It really would have illustrated your point better if you'd picked the matching sections.
Ten years ago, this would've been a no-brainer. These days, WatchMojo videos are more likely than not to piss me off with _precisely_ the sort of incompetence you pointed out (and in this case, atleast they played _brief_ examples of the similar-sounding sections, even if they couldn't figure out how to place the two clips adjacent to each other so the viewer could, you know, actually _compare_ them). You know... a "Top Ten News Stories the World Watched Live" video that lists the ten stories, but actually shows, maybe, _two_ of the actual videos we all watched live. A "Top Ten Controversial Song Lyrics" video that lists the ten songs, and gives a few vague and irrelevant details about them, but doesn't actually specify what the lyrics _were_ or why they were controversial. That sort of general idiocy. Hey, WatchMojo... care for some constructive criticism? When you post a list, have the entries on the list actually answer the questions or provide the information the viewer came to have answered or be provided when they decided to click on the link. That's why they clicked on the link in the first place. This wasn't an issue ten or fifteen years ago, but I can't count the number of lists of yours I've watched over the past couple of years that left me wondering why I'm still subscribed to your channel. I think I'll start keeping a list of these transgressions. Then, when I get ten of them, I'll submit the list to WhatCulture (that way, when the video comes to an end, the viewer won't be perplexed as to what exactly was so infuriating about them).
'Teddy Swims - Bad dreams' sampling from 'Dire straits - sultans of swing' Now I don't know if Teddy's team gave credits to Dire Straights, but if not....that's a lawsuit waiting to happen...
Funny how Led Zeppelin’s on here when they talk shit about Greta Van Fleet sounding like them 😂 Zeppelin has been in and out of court since the beginning multiple times and Plant tries to make fun of Greta Van Fleet 🤦🏻♂️😂
Kelly Clarkson's 'Behind These Hazel Eyes' to me sounds close to Japanese group ZWEI's 'Fake Face', chord progression and arrangement. Nobody is aware as far as I know
Milli Vanilli's "All or Nothing" (1989) vs. Blood, Sweat & Tears' "Spinning Wheel" (1968) "All or Nothing" was Milli Vanilli's last top-10 hit in North America, reaching No. 4 in the U.S. and No. 9 in Canada while hitting No. 1 in New Zealand, becoming their last No. 1 single anywhere. Amidst the numerous legal issues stemming from the duo's lip-syncing controversy, singer-songwriter David Clayton-Thomas sued Milli Vanilli for copyright infringement, citing that "All or Nothing" copied the melody from his 1968 song "Spinning Wheel".
I feel like they were intentionally trying not to do some of the more blatant ripoff that occurred in a handful of popular rap songs from the late 80s and 90s. For example, Van Helen's Janie's Crying and Tone Loc's Wild Thing. It also may be the argument of which songs were actually more popular.
Interesting list Watch Mojo. My wish list. Top 10 Tom Sizemore Performances Top 20 Easiest Celebrities to work With Top 10 Limp Bizkit Songs Top 20 Greatest Acting Oscar wins of All Time Top 30 Greatest Songs of the 1990s Top 30 Greatest Songs of the 2000s
Really? That was an easy one. The chorus part where they're singing "he's so fine" is the same melody and cadence as when George sings "my sweet lord".
The two chord verse is also identical. However, there are only a limited number of chords and I hear many chord sequences which are identical to other songs but the vocal melodies are usually vastly different.
@@markcheetah4960 Totally. They shoulda played the other parts of the songs. It's not like these are incredibly famous songs that people have heard for 60 years AND can be checked out online at any given moment. HOW are people supposed to know?!?!
Ice Ice Baby. I started learning piano a couple years ago and my teacher got me to study Bach abit for music hystory. I listen to a 2 hour compilation of his music and heard a lot of Beatles music in there.
Not really. It’s pretty easy to not realize that what you’re hearing in your head is something that already exists. That’s not to say that the person that wrote it originally shouldn’t be protected, but that doesn’t mean it was a conscious decision by the person that copied it.
@@spiffokeen true, but the judge (nor anybody else, except Harrison) can say (with certainty), that Harrison “subconsciously” plagiarize the song. (as opposed to “consciously” plagiarize) - Pretty much any artist that’s getting sued, in court, for plagiarism (i.e. they didn’t settle out of court beforehand) Any artist defendant,is going to say: “Oh, I wasn’t aware that my song was so similar to that song” etc: - It’s very possible, Harrison was “well aware” it was the same song. - So my original post was just emphasizing the semantics of using the phrase (“subconsciously” plagiarize) - I’m just making an analogy to somebody using an excuse as: “Your Honor, I didn’t attack the plaintiff, his Face hit my Fist” (“yeah, that’s the ticket”, I subconsciously didn’t know that was his face) 😅
@@lessismore8533 It is definitely throwback inspired but man he gets wayyyy too close to just cloning. Hey, I think he's great but at no point ever in his catalog have I heard anything with an original twist or his own style. He reminds me of a great tribute band. I remember the first time I heard "Locked Out Of Heaven" I said "this is a Police song". But I did respect him a lot when he said in an interview how much he likes The Police.
2:36 Sara Bareilles joined Katy Perry on stage at “We Can Survive” radio concert and they performed Roar together (along with the other artists performing that night).
I do know that a lot of bands from The British Invasion were really into Blues and Rock n' Roll from that era to the point of emulating their sound to their style of music. The Rolling Stones once pointed out the exact song that inspired one of their songs in a documentary. I think it was a Muddy Waters song. They didn't see it as plagiarism. It was more of playing homage to their heroes.
I figured « Dani California » by Red Hot Chilli Peppers would be compared with « Mary Jane’s Last Dance » by Tom Petty. Surprised it didn’t make the list!
I don't know if this counts, because they were both big names at the time. Phil Collins Sussidio and Prince 1999. Phil Collins got sued by Prince for the opening keyboard number. And actually Phil was ordered to change it up as well. But they do sound a lot alike still.
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Just because there are songs that sound similar to each other doesn't make them rip-offs, plus I grew up listening to Roar and Brave, I would always get the two songs mixed up, calling Roar by Katy Perry rip off is not only disrespectful, but also distasteful because it's an amazing song with a powerful message, do better Watchmojo! 😒😑🙄🤨😠🙄
Two of my all time favorite songs, Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry and Surfin' USA by the Beach Boys are virually identical. "They're really rockin' in Boston, Pittsburgh, PA, San Anofree and Sunset, Redondo Beach LA, all over St Louis and down in New Orleans, everybody's gone surfin', with sweet little 16".
@@JamesDavy2009the alphabet song too, then, because... ay bee cee dee eee eff gee, how i wonder what you are , up above the tee you vee, double you ecks, in the sky.....
Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" and Van Halen's Jamie's Crying. Tone settled for $250,000 after Van Halen's management originally let the guitar lick go for $5,000.
This one has been in my head when I noticed. I went through a massive Bollywood movie phase years ago. There was a smash hit Bollywood movie called Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in 1998...the songs were awsome but one of them was called Koi Mil Gaya...it was virtually an exact copy of Andrew Lloyd Webber's song Take that look off your face. I'm sure many Indians never knew much about Sir Andrew haha.
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Nice!
My wish list:
Top 10 disney junior shows
Top 10 unimportant pokemon episodes (no catching new pokemon, no evolving, no gym/pokemon leage battle, no meeting new rivles, etc)
Top 10 underrated animated disney series
Best disney movie per decade
Top 10 disney reprise songs (deleted included)
Top 10 disney villains that deserved a villain song
Top 10 disney couples with a tough start (Both movies and tv-series)
Top 10 what have I done moment excluding disney and pixar
Top 10 disney movie ideas (by you)
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"Sweet Little Sixteen" (Chuck Berry) vs. "Surfing USA" (Beach Boys).
"Love Is a Wonderful Thing" (Isley Brothers) vs. "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" (Michael Bolton).
"Taurus" (Spirit) vs. "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin).
"Got to Give It Up" (Marvin Gaye) vs. "Blurred Lines" (Robin Thicke).
😂
"Run Through the Jungle" (CCR) vs. "Old Man Down the Road" (John Fogerty, main songwriter for CCR).
😊ah yea mikel Myers
@@freezer8530 "Feel it Still" (Portugal) vs. "Please Mister Postman" (The Marvelettes)
The thing I found dumb is when they take someone to court when their “original” song was a rip off of someone else’s song too 😂
Yep. KJ slightly ripped off a riff by the Mighty Damned, who themselves had taken that bass line from someone else, who might even… (with all due respect to all those bands I love !)
There's an episode of Silicon Valley that touches on that. There's a sleazy lawyer that buys the rights to old songs then sues bands that end up having similar melodies and brags about it. He ends up buying a really broad tech copyright and tries to sue the protagonist of the series, so the protagonist uses an old program he wrote to scan some of the songs the guy had won court battles with. After the scan he found even older songs that were similar to the ones the guy owned the rights to and he threatened to to notify the rights owners of those even older songs about him profiting off of similar songs and the guy finally dropped his lawsuit.
Name an example?
@@benjamingraham8640 The Rolling Stones took 100 percent of what the Verve is making off of “Bitter Sweet Symphony” and they ,the Rolling Stones, had said that they “borrowed” or “adapted” the Melody and Lyrics of the Chorus from a Gospel Song that was recorded in the 50s 😂 so they “adapted” ideas from another song then said that someone else “TOOK!!!” Their ideas 🤦🏻♂️😂 I wonder if they’re paying The Staple Singers for the money they’re making off of the Verve? 🤔 🤷🏻♂️😂
@@benjamingraham8640 go down a few comments and you’ll see someone commenting that The Killing Joke took or “adapted” their riff from The Dammed and sued Nirvana for taking their Riff on Come As You Are…that they “adapted” from The Dammed 😂 I wonder if they’re paying The Dammed any money if they made money off of Nirvana?
To be honest, I think a certain amount of unintentional Plagiarism is unavoidable; there are only so many notes and only so many ways they can be put together.
And you just can't remember everything you have heard during your life, not consciously, but a lot of that will be there anyway on the subconscious level. And when somebody is writing a new song, that may come up. Or is probably very likely to come up. With luck it's not enough to create a full copy but will be just bits and pieces that will come together into something at least sort of new. With bad luck...
And as we go forward in time we are probably going to get more and more of these type of cases.
If they don't change the plagiarism rule from 5 consecutive notes played that are identical to 5 consecutive notes played on another song to 10 consecutive notes, soon there will be all kinds of people in music suing each other.
Who will be the first to sue an AI generated composition, do ya think?
@@jimo3173 An easier solution is to limit the time one can make said claims, do like patent law, 20 years, but no more, past that it's fair use.
especially when it's over something that has entered the pop culture zeitgeist, like 3LW trying to sue taylor swift over "players gonna play, haters gonna hate." that's just slang at this point, are they also gonna sue BTS for using it in "mic drop"?
You mean you didn't include the Label that sued Fogerty - for sounding like CCR (which he was the lead singer and main songwriter for)?
In other words, they sued him for SOUNDING LIKE HIMSELF.
He won the case just by pointing that simple fact out.
I do love that one.
Fought For 8 Years 😮
@@thomashumphrey48 The original lawsuit took less than 2 years to resolve.
The additional time and hearings ending up in the Supreme Court was over the award of attorney fees.
It was pathetic!
Saul zarntz was the owner of fantasy records. Zantz screwed ccr out of millions.
25 years ago I worked as a Personal Protection Agent for Paul McCartney while he was in New Orleans, Louisiana. I found him to be a very nice man and I even got to sing Irish Folks Songs along with him at a Irish Pub in the French Quarter. I can't sing but I can say I sang with a Beetle !
You mean Billy Shepherd.
Beatle
No you didn't
@@altheadawn2531Sure. Bc Paul McCartney is so famous that he had no bodyguards. 🤦♂️
If Sir Paul didn't tell you you can't sing, then you can sing. Because he did tell Stephen Fry that he (Stephen) can't sing :D
She owned up to it well before it was released and made a deal with the band, but Dua Lupa's "Break My Heart" used much of the INXS song, "Need You Tonight". She said she only realized when she heard the recorded version and INXS was completely agreeable to her offer of money and credit on the album. To me it's refreshing to hear about some honesty in the business.
When I hear Break My Heart I think of Another One Bites The Dust by Queen.
@@leesupnorth8229 Another Heart Bites The Dust. 😺😺
@@HariSeldon913 one of those TH-camrs that does the mashup songs should make that. It could be Another Heart Bites The Dust Tonight by Queen Lipa featuring Freddie Hutchence.
She didn't own up anything until after she was called out about it.
she also borrowed the trumpet bit for “Love Again” from White Towns “Your woman” who had borrowed that from Al Bowlly.
And Killing Joke’s “Eighties” ripped off The Damned’s “Life Goes On”
Thank you, it's on the only Damned CD I don't have and I never remember the song's name. Though The Damned themselves admitted they nicked it somewhere too !
also "I have 22 faces" by Garden of Delight (that's the one i like)
@@pateris Punks not stealing would be too off-brand ;-)
…yer eeeeeeeeevil mate ! 😁😁😁
An easy solution, just limit copyright of music to 20 years, because as Ed Sheeran showed holding a claim to a few cords that are repeated is absolutely idiotic
Limit copyright, hard. Death + 70 is beyond crazy, copyright until death of creator is the most I'd go for, but it's already too much.
Rapper Ice T recently asked David Gilmore from Pink Floyd if he could borrow the melody for Comfortably Numb but write new lyrics. David Gilmore actually ended up playing on the song for the album.
Didn't know that, thank you ! Just like Luke from 2-live Crew asked M. Springsteen the right to use his song as "banned in the USA", and the answer was a very enthusiastic "F……… yeah !" ;)
Coldplay wanted to ask permission to use the riff from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love" for their song "Talk", and had their management contact Kraftwerk's management, expecting some densely worded legal agreement in reply. Instead they got a personal handwritten note from Florian Schneider saying, "Yes, that's OK."
"Joe Satriani’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Coldplay has been settled, Satriani’s rep tells Billboard. Satriani sued the British soft rockers, claiming that “Viva La Vida” ripped off his song “If I Could Fly.” The legal dispute was resolved with an undisclosed settlement between the two parties."
not only that, but "If I Could Fly" predates the The Creaky Boards, too
@@bayonetbrant great point
I was confused when "Viva la Vida" was compared to "Songs I Didn't Write" in this video. As soon as "Viva la Vida" was mentioned I assumed they were going to mention the lawsuit with Satriani. The melody from Viva la Vida is very similar to part of the guitar solo in Satriani's "If I Could Fly".
Katy Perry's " Roar" & Sara Bareilles " Brave" are both good songs.
actually listening to those 2 songs I thought they were the same song 😅😅😅
I’ve always liked “Roar” way more than “Brave” as someone who doesn’t do much modern pop, I feel like the former was made for me. The latter doesn’t strike the right notes, at least it doesn’t with me.
@@Jeremiah_Rivers76 Brave was written by Sara Bareilles about a friend that was scared and in the closet. I think it has a much more significant meaning than Roar, which is just another Dr Luke and Max Martin product.
@@Mechadroid209when I heard Katy Perry’s song first time. I thought haven’t I heard this before
@@notyoaveragesouthernmama5734 I know about Dr Luke, but what did Max Martin do?
John Lennon acknowledged it was a tribute to Chuck Berry
I thought the resolution of that "conflict" was quite elegant.
The Beatles didn't seem to shy away from the fact that they got most of their influences from Black artists, I didn't think?
Sure sure now let me go give a "tribute" to Prince and make a billion dollars. 😂
@@TheoRae8289 Same for Elvis, really
“Ice ice baby”, Vanilla Ice/ “ Under pressure”, Queen.
they said "more popular" alot of people know Under Pressure tbh
It's a different number of dings. Theirs goes ding ding ding dah-dah ding ding, and his goes ding ding ding dah-dah DING ding ding.
Source: Rob Van Winkle
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@@jscan4442 😆
@@jscan4442ding ding alright
It's the reverse now Vanilla owns the song now and Queen is required to ask permission to use Under Pressure
The most interesting case is where a lesser-known song was ripped off twice. Carol Douglas performed the song "Midnight Love Affair" in 1976. Since then, k.d. lang has recorded "Constant Craving", and The Rolling Stones did "Anybody Seen My Baby" - both of which have sound-alike lead vocals. The Rolling Stones did get accused of ripping someone off, but *not* Carol Douglas. No, they were accused of ripping off k.d. lang. It's sad how old tracks get forgotten so soon.
Katy perry doesn't write her own songs, so I doubt she knew about the similarity until her producers/writers presented "Roar" to her.
Huey Lewis passed on writing the music for Ghostbusters, then the studio that produced Ghostbusters told Ray Parker "write something that sound like Huey Lewis." That's why it sounds like that.
Hollywood clones actors and actresses all the time. "Get me a Robert Redford type. Thus Brad Pitt's career was born." Find me a Darren lookalike for Bewitched. Dude found. They don't sue however. Anybody know the difference between Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum? Who played MacArthur?
@@DaryMatera You do know that a person who looks like someone else is not the same as ripping off intellectual property that somebody made using the creative process.
@@butcherboy2008 Why not? It's the same theory only in a different genre. You are basically ripping off someone's well designed image and likeness. Same thing college football players fought hard to achieve.
@@DaryMatera Didn't the original dad to Marty McFly sue for using his image in Back to the Future 2?
@@mrmarkleybio6272 Doesn't ring a bell. The same actor wasn't in Back 2? Seems he was. That would be a tough lawsuit to win as actors are interchanged all the time. There's been what, a half dozen Batman's and Spiderman's and counting so far.
Some of these weren't the original though. I Want a New Drug by Huey Lewis from 1983 sounds similar to Pop Muzik by M from 1979. Eighties by Killing Joke from 1984 sounds similar to Life Goes On by The Damned from 1982. Also, I think two songs that came out the same year that sounds similar could come off as a coincidence IMO since it's likely they didn't know about the similar sounding song when recording it.
I don't hear the link to M's "Pop Music".
@@mneugent7658 it sounds vaguely similar but not real close. I wouldn't call it a ripoff either
@@whaduzitmatr I can hear it a little in those spots where M's song goes "Talk about.... Pop music" but that's about it.
Come As You Are in this list is diabolical.
Laughs in Dr. Feelgood. IYKYK
“Mulheres” - Toninho Geraes e Martinho da Vila vs “Million Years Ago” - Adele
“Seville” - Luiz Bonfá vs “Somebody That I Used To Know” - Gotye
“What To Do” - Vanusa vs “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” - Black Sabbath
"Maria Moita” - Carlos Lyra vs “Smoke on the Water” - Deep Purple
Funny thing about Katy Perry’s “Roar”: When she performed that song atop an animatronic lioness, I seriously wanted her to do a Pokémon inspired version of that song where she pulled off a Malva cosplay.
Given that she did a Pokémon inspired song with “Electric”, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch if she did that.
When I first heard California Gurls by her it was familiar. The obscure song, Google I’ll Be your Friend By Robert Owens, The Glamorous mix version. Go to 1:04 and then go to Perry’s song.
@@jmac3977 With brings up The Beach Boys doing the original titled California Girls, different song however, but David Lee Roth did it word for word one assumes with permission. Roth and Van Halen also did Roy Orbinson's Pretty Woman and a number of other covers. Assuming with permission?
You missed The Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night" and The Doors' "Hello, I Love You."
Every "ripoff" song Weird Al does is always better than the original (yes, I know they're parody).
True, but the list is about sales and I think he's only outsold one or two.
@@HariSeldon913 Which songs? did Weird Al outsell the originals.
No way in hell is Al Yankovic ever better than Michael Jackson. He definitely got rich off making fun of Michael Jackson's music. But That's not better, that's a Saturday live comedy skit with money behind it. Weird Al is a comedian, NOT a real Musician 💩
@@dearcopeebles5717 Actually, he was capable of real musician work - but he CHOSE to be a parody artist (for the most part).
And he didn't just do that with some of MJ's songs, Queen let him make "Another One Rides The Bus", Nirvana allowed "Smells Like Nirvana", among MANY other VERY well known examples.
@@bricefleckenstein9666 "Actually" No he was always a Comedy writer that made comedy songs. way back in the 1970s, he would sell his songs to radio comedy shows but never made any real money. Until he started doing Music parodies of popular music aka, Beat It First big success. He did NOT get permission at first. there was a big deal about it back in the day, but Michael Jackson didn't want to sue him Because he thought Eat It was funny. The Studio, CBS records wanted to bring a lawsuit against Al at the time.. My point was, that comparing Weird Al's talent to Michael Jackson's and saying Al was "Better" is like comparing Mark Wahlberg's acting abilities to Danial Day-Lewis and saying Wahlberg should have his awards. no REAL comparison there
If the artist was allowed legally to sample the music its not a ripoff. Its called a cover or tribute.
It's more of a cover than tribute but of course it's legal all because of this $$$$$
a SAMPLE is NOT a cover or tribute.
@@ScarysReviews A sample legally approved by the artist is not a rip off either. Shared royalties are the main factor. Unfortunately people are far to uninformed to understand the difference.
Yea like what Drake does every record. It’s okay to use the whole song as long as it has an original title and a bridge
Sampling was uncredited until the Turtles sued De La Soul. After that, If a sample contains a certain number of seconds, the original artist is credited and royalties are due.
Covers and tributes are a reinterpretation of the entire song and royalties are paid to the writer.
"Taj Mahal" is an absolute masterpiece, and Jorge Ben's voice of gold is the one singers must be dreaming to have (I most certainly do !)
Agreed so many songs of his I love
The whole Sports album is fantastic
The worst case of out right stealing a song was vanilla ice , ice ice stealing, from bowie and queen under pressure, then trying to defend it by saying it was different in an interview, blatant ripoff that he lost and had to pay
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!! I CAN'T STAND HOW Vanilla Ice says " NO NO NO NO NO.... THERE'S goes dun dun dun dun nun dun duh... MINE goes dun dun dun dun duh nun duh duh tisk, it's TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!!"
not uncommon for rappers to sample classic tunes
@@MephProduction I know this , but you must pay for the rights which vanilla didn't do
I heard a musician give a story how she accidentally plagiarized her own song. When she went to play her “new song” for her husband, he said “yah, you already wrote that a few years ago.
You should have Kid Rock All Summer Long Vs. Warren Zevon Werewolves of London and Lynynd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama on the list and Robin Thickle Blurred Lines Vs. Marvin Gaye Got to Give It Up.
All Summer Long was done with approval
the title says RIPOFFS that were MORE POPULAR
all summer long is a sample and not more popular that sweet home alabama
What about. “Vanilla ice”, “ice ice baby”, versus Queen & David Bowie’s “Under Pressure”
@@MikeCee7 we all know that story
@@MikeCee7 Nope! Sample....
Really bad presentation. Play the music back to back so you can clearly hear the similarities and then do the narration afterwards. Don't do it in between and thereby interrupt the listener trying to hear the similarities.
Ah, fresh new content from WatchMojo. Yep, not a topic they've ever covered before!
Is it the same 10 songs? If not, then it's pretty reasonable to do an updated video on the same theme, IMO.
1:44 Also Coldplay vs. Kraftwerk with "Talk" vs. "Computer Love."
They called it an "homage" afterwards but c'mon fam; it's the same progression outright & the hook is literally identical. 🤷🤷♂🤷♀
Listen to Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” starting at the lyrics “I’m a blonde bimbo girl in a fantasy world”. Then listen to the chorus of “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” by Leann Rimes.
I’m convinced Aqua is overdue royalties for having their melody sampled and slowed down by Leann Rimes.
I just watched that bit of Barbie Girl at 0.75 normal speed. you're right, it fits in perfectly!
Never heard that.
You sure it’s not just coincidence. The notes don’t go in the exact same order. Could’ve been an unintentional thing..
Kiss, "I Was Made For Loving You," lifted from the Four Tops, "Standing In the Shadows Of Love..."
Now that you mention it… Chers mate !
The Four Tops wanted nothing to do with that terrible KISS song.
@@mneugent7658 Can't say I'd blame them.
@@mneugent7658 nah it's alright
the hilarious element to the "my sweet lord" suit was that the money was to go to the owner of the original copyright- turns out the publishing rights had been purchased by Harrison some years before. he had to cut a cheque to a company he owns... and Led Zeppelin "borrowed" a lot without attributions or payouts...
Borrowed. Yea let’s go with “borrowed”. lol
Zeppelin put the metal to a lot of all folk songs I'm sure they presumed were in the public market.
@@DaryMatera they had enough awareness of the industry that "presumption" is ridiculous. they were willing to protect their own copyrights and royalties.
@@hippomancy Yet some of the ancient Viking fight songs Led Zeppelin recorded were well beyond the copyright statues.
@@DaryMatera willy dixon wasn't a viking.
Filter's "Hey man, Nice shot" against Godsmack's "Keep Away". Filter just leads with the bass, but Smack used a guitar. Same verse riff.
Number 4 in the list: "I want a new drug"-(Huey Lewis), and "Ghostbusters"-(Ray Parker Jr), but no-one remembers a one-hit wonder that came out in 1979..."Pop Music" by a band called "M". They could have sued both Huey Lewis AND Ray Parker, because their song has a similar rhythm and riff to those songs!
I had "Pop Music" on 45 back in the day. Still know it by heart. I disagree that they'd have any claim on the other 2 songs. It has barely any similar sounds to the other 2.
@@mneugent7658 I was referring more to the rhythm of the song more than the sounds compared to the others. They also all have a similar chord progression 1st(root chord),then 4th and 5th notes in music theory. Needless to say, they were first anyway!
@@iansmith1965 I can see what you're saying about the 1,4,5.
everyone remembers that, hear it on the radio allthe time
A lot of songs sound alike because by 2030 we have invented every single melody we can think of and the arrangements follow a similar pattern that is pleasing to the ears in every genre so some of these songs waren't a rip off, it happened by accident.
Come as you are is my favorite Nirvana song. 🎉
🥉
Interesting. I am a massive Nirvana fan. Read all of the biographies, had maybe a hundred different bootlegs and unlicensed versions of songs back in the day. Come As You Are is probably my least favorite Nirvana song. It might just be the effects on the guitar. Too much chorus and flange.
I am old enough to have a original edition of "Nevermind" in CD, bought in a retail store. I just love "Come as you are", to this day.
2:08 even WatchMojo is afraid of Nintendo lawyers by not adding the original sound bite
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)
Waka Waka (Shakira)
I thought Waka Waka was by Fozzie Bear.
@@mneugent7658booooooo
@@GiaMarieCarangi I read that in Statler and Walforf's voices.
@@GiaMarieCarangi Hey, it was there so I took the shot.
Ummm who DIDN'T rip off Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, & Fats Domino?
Without checking I can confirm Willie Dixon is credited in my Led Zeppelin 2 CD
In 1963, Chuck Berry's lawyers threatened to sue the Beach Boys for copyright infringement on their song "Surfin' U.S.A.". The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson wrote the song as a tribute to Berry, inspired by Berry's 1958 song "Sweet Little Sixteen".
Am I the only one who thinks Katy Perry's song Roar is overrated AF? Because I'd prefer the song Brave by Sara Bareilles.
Roar happened at the correct moment in my life where I can't make myself see it as the overrated slop it is, same for a couple other singles from that time. Emotionally for me it's on the same level as Brave.
I agree with Theo. Aurora helped me heal during a mental health crisis. I had in 2013. Brave was good, but it didn’t have the same impact on me.
No
Roar is full of cliches. Brave is better written and more playful
@carmelafernando7823 Brave was written as a message to a special person in mind and communicated that solidarity. Roar is supposed to be a very generalized empowerment tune that wasn't geared towards any particular group. Intent is different between the two, honestly.
Once I was doodling on my bass guitar, and I started playing something familiar. After thinking about I realized it was the theme from the TV show Night Court. Never once tried to learn it. Just came out of nowhere. Most of these are similar circumstances. Except Ghostbusters, that was intentional.
You tell us that 9 got their songs from Zelda but you don't put the song in? What kinda lazy YouTubing do we have here?
Tried to find answers but can't find a single Zelda song that resembles Viva La Vida. Crazy thing to say and then not provide proof
A correction for you. Huey did the song for Back to the Future because he figured he might as well, after the debacle with Ghostbusters where he turned them down and they just stole the song anyway. It had nothing to do with worrying about how well the Ghostbusters track did.
"Let's Wait Awhile" by Janet Jackson has been described as "bearing striking similarities" to the 1975 song "Daisy Jane" by the band America. Reportedly on hearing "Let's Wait Awhile" on a car radio in 1987, the road manager for America pulled over at a phone booth to alert Gerry Beckley to the evident debt of Jackson's track to Beckley's composition. Beckley eventually reached an out-of-court settlement with Jackson and her co-writers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, thus preempting litigation for plagiarism
When I didn't see it earlier in the list, I fully expected to see the Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' and the orchestral version of the Rolling Stone's 'The Last Time' to be number one.
Regarding Coldplay's "Viva la Vida", Joe Satriani had actually sued even more plagiarism about that track than Creaky Boards' with "If I Could Fly".
Also, you could consider these:
The Hollies (The Air That I Breathe) vs Radiohead (Creep) vs Lana del Rey (Get Free).
Marvin Gaye (Got to Give It Up) vs Robin Thicke (Blurred Lines).
Rolling Stones (The Last Time) vs The Verve (Bitter Sweet Symphony).
Except it wouldn't be "The Hollies vs. Radiohead...". The Hollies version of that song is the second cover of Albert Hammond's (yes, the father of The Strokes lead guitar player) original. Phil Everly beat The Hollies to the punch in covering it as well.
“On the Floor” by Jennifer Lopez also took from some older Spanish song..
@@lessismore8533 If you don't know, that song was actually from Bolivia by Los Kjarkas (Llorando se fue). It was later covered by Brazillian singer Marcia Ferreira and remixed by Kaoma (France) under the name "Lambada", which, at that time, became a hit in music chart.
Also, I heard that one of Christina Aguilera's track, "Feel This Moment", also took its tune from a-ha's "Take on Me".
MC Hammer - Can't Touch This and Rick James - Superfreak
You're welcome WatchMojo
That's a sample not a rip off
True. Hahaha
I figured this would just be Led Zeppelin's entire catalog.
😂😂😂..
When they came up I thought "well, that wasn't one of the 5 I was thinking of, but it works!".
Doja Cat “Say so”(2020) vs Gwen Stefani “Make me like you”(2016)
Chuck Berry's "sweet little 16" & the Beach Boys "surfin' USA"
Bo Didley's theme song and the Stranelove's "I want candy"
The verses in Shania Twain’s “Man I Feel Like a Woman” has the same progression as the verses in Aerosmith’s “Uncle Salty.” Everyone and their mother has heard the former while only people who have listened to Aerosmith’s Toys in the Attic album have heard the latter.
And two songs that I recently noticed have the same chord progression are Disturbed’s “Stricken” and Sean Paul’s “Give it up to Me,” both of which were released in 2005.
@@jaimerosado3896 Also, I heard that one of Shania Twain's song (can't remember) has the same note progression as ABBA's "Dancing Queen".
Men at Works' track "down under" from 1981 was successfully sued over copyright infringement of an Australian kids song "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree" written by Marion Sinclair.
It's 80's music but highly recognisable.
It didn't get noticed until a question was asked on _Spicks & Specks_ about that part of the song.
That one annoys me because it didn't take into account the difference between the *song* and the *arrangement* -- or the song and the *recording* . The "Kookaburra" song is quoted in the *arrangement* of that one *recording* of "Down Under", but it's not part of the song's main melody or lyric (meaning, the song). I could sit at a piano and play and sing a cover version of "Down Under" and "Kookaburra" would be nowhere in it. It's not part of the SONGWRITING.
I wish Colin Hay had sat in court with his acoustic guitar and played "Down Under" all the way through, and then the defense could have asked, "Did you recognize that song? Where in it was 'Kookaburra'?" (Nowhere.) I can see the heirs of Marion Sinclair getting a cut of that specific *recording*, but not of the songwriting, with a songwriting credit.
@@niemann3942 In the video of 'Down Under', the flute bit playing 'Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree' is played by the flautist while sitting in an old gum tree. I suspect the band just thought the old kids song was in the public domain, if they thought about it at all.
@@MartinInBC Yes, I remember that in the video, and I remember the band saying they did think it was just an old, uncopyrighted song. But again, that has nothing to do with my point, which is that "Kookaburra" is a part of the arrangement of that one recording -- not a part of the song or songwriting (which is usually defined as melody and lyrics).
If you sat and sang "Down Under" a capella, everyone would recognize it and know what song you were doing, but "Kookaburra" wouldn't be anywhere in it. Another example is this cover version. No one can say it's not "Down Under" ... but where is "Kookaburra"? Nowhere. It's not a part of the melody or the lyrics. It's not a part of the SONG.
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Funny thing is, Chuck Berry based his guitar parts on what his piano player was playing while they were jamming, which were standard blues riffs anyway. His piano player got mad about not getting any writing credits.
Honorable mention of wrestling themes, DDPs WCW theme ripoff of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, Chris Jericho’s theme ripoff of Pearl Jam Even Flow, Raven’s theme ripoff of Nirvana’s Come as you are, Christian’s theme ripoff of Evenescence My Last Breath.
Jimmy Hart did the songs in WCW, he also did a knock off Purple Rain for The Artist formerly know as Prince Iaeka
#3 isn't just a rip off its a shot for shot.
"Let me show you something, (plays 3 notes on a guitar) I have just plagiarized over 5 million songs."
Wow, these songs are so catchy despite being rip-offs! 🎶😲
"Dazed and Confused" by (again) Led Zeppelin and the same titled song by Jake Holmes. Jake Holmes went on the write commercial "jingles" and eventually got "credit" for the apparent similarities (The song is credited to Jimmy Page but with a note that it was "inspired" by Jake Holmes).
It would be cool if you'd play the parts of the song that actually sound the same. For example, with "My Sweet Lord" and "He's So Fine" you played completely different parts of the song. It really would have illustrated your point better if you'd picked the matching sections.
Ten years ago, this would've been a no-brainer.
These days, WatchMojo videos are more likely than not to piss me off with _precisely_ the sort of incompetence you pointed out (and in this case, atleast they played _brief_ examples of the similar-sounding sections, even if they couldn't figure out how to place the two clips adjacent to each other so the viewer could, you know, actually _compare_ them). You know... a "Top Ten News Stories the World Watched Live" video that lists the ten stories, but actually shows, maybe, _two_ of the actual videos we all watched live. A "Top Ten Controversial Song Lyrics" video that lists the ten songs, and gives a few vague and irrelevant details about them, but doesn't actually specify what the lyrics _were_ or why they were controversial. That sort of general idiocy.
Hey, WatchMojo... care for some constructive criticism? When you post a list, have the entries on the list actually answer the questions or provide the information the viewer came to have answered or be provided when they decided to click on the link. That's why they clicked on the link in the first place. This wasn't an issue ten or fifteen years ago, but I can't count the number of lists of yours I've watched over the past couple of years that left me wondering why I'm still subscribed to your channel.
I think I'll start keeping a list of these transgressions. Then, when I get ten of them, I'll submit the list to WhatCulture (that way, when the video comes to an end, the viewer won't be perplexed as to what exactly was so infuriating about them).
Should’ve added Shakira’s “Waka Waka” (2010) vs Golden Sounds “Zangaléwa” (1986).
Does ripoff mean "I'm too stupid to hear the differences in music"
'Teddy Swims - Bad dreams' sampling from 'Dire straits - sultans of swing'
Now I don't know if Teddy's team gave credits to Dire Straights, but if not....that's a lawsuit waiting to happen...
Funny how Led Zeppelin’s on here when they talk shit about Greta Van Fleet sounding like them 😂 Zeppelin has been in and out of court since the beginning multiple times and Plant tries to make fun of Greta Van Fleet 🤦🏻♂️😂
LOL
Plant didn’t make fun of them tho. He praised them
Doesn’t matter tho. Zeppelin fans will consider them the GOAT no matter what they do..
George Harrison paid part of that for the rights to the song so no one could do it again. Besides the fact that the whole lawsuit was ridiculous.
Ripception: Lana Del Ray ripping off Radiohead ripping off The Hollies.
Kelly Clarkson's 'Behind These Hazel Eyes' to me sounds close to Japanese group ZWEI's 'Fake Face', chord progression and arrangement. Nobody is aware as far as I know
@@Zaruf What about "Already Gone" having almost same tune as "Halo" from Beyonce?
After watching the movie HERETIC, I can add one more:
Radiohead’s Creep vs The Hollies’ The Air That I Breathe
I think Lana del Rey's "Get Free" also borrowed elements from Radiohead's "Creep" as well.
Milli Vanilli's "All or Nothing" (1989) vs. Blood, Sweat & Tears' "Spinning Wheel" (1968)
"All or Nothing" was Milli Vanilli's last top-10 hit in North America, reaching No. 4 in the U.S. and No. 9 in Canada while hitting No. 1 in New Zealand, becoming their last No. 1 single anywhere. Amidst the numerous legal issues stemming from the duo's lip-syncing controversy, singer-songwriter David Clayton-Thomas sued Milli Vanilli for copyright infringement, citing that "All or Nothing" copied the melody from his 1968 song "Spinning Wheel".
I am really surprised that both Queen and Vanilla Ice weren't on this.
Queen came out before Vanilla Ice.
Probably because Ice Ice Baby is not more popular than Under Pressure (well, maybe for 15 minutes in the 90s)
I feel like they were intentionally trying not to do some of the more blatant ripoff that occurred in a handful of popular rap songs from the late 80s and 90s. For example, Van Helen's Janie's Crying and Tone Loc's Wild Thing. It also may be the argument of which songs were actually more popular.
@@ryanb4481 exactly, a sample is different than a stylistic ripoff
Under Pressure was HUGE when it was released. Ice Ice Baby was big too, but it certainly wasn't more popular than Under Pressure.
@@redgringrumboldt8983 im just going off of what the billboard chart says, any other way of measuring is subjective
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1) bs ... with "the sequence"
Coldplay's Viva la vida ripped off If I Could Fly by Joe Satriani.
There was also another crappy Coldplay song (I can't remember the title) that ripped off Computer Liebe by Kraftwerk.
Interesting list Watch Mojo.
My wish list.
Top 10 Tom Sizemore Performances
Top 20 Easiest Celebrities to work With
Top 10 Limp Bizkit Songs
Top 20 Greatest Acting Oscar wins of All Time
Top 30 Greatest Songs of the 1990s
Top 30 Greatest Songs of the 2000s
I hear nothing in common on the George Harrison song for a law suit.
Really? That was an easy one. The chorus part where they're singing "he's so fine" is the same melody and cadence as when George sings "my sweet lord".
The two chord verse is also identical. However, there are only a limited number of chords and I hear many chord sequences which are identical to other songs but the vocal melodies are usually vastly different.
@@mneugent7658It WOULD be an easy one if they had played the proper parts of the songs for comparison. Bad editing.
@@markcheetah4960 Totally. They shoulda played the other parts of the songs. It's not like these are incredibly famous songs that people have heard for 60 years AND can be checked out online at any given moment. HOW are people supposed to know?!?!
Ice Ice Baby. I started learning piano a couple years ago and my teacher got me to study Bach abit for music hystory. I listen to a 2 hour compilation of his music and heard a lot of Beatles music in there.
I love how the judge said: ‘Harrison “subconsciously” plagiarize the song. 1:05. Isn’t that a euphemism, for saying he blatantly “copied” this song?
Not really. It’s pretty easy to not realize that what you’re hearing in your head is something that already exists. That’s not to say that the person that wrote it originally shouldn’t be protected, but that doesn’t mean it was a conscious decision by the person that copied it.
@@spiffokeen true, but the judge (nor anybody else, except Harrison) can say (with certainty), that Harrison “subconsciously” plagiarize the song. (as opposed to “consciously” plagiarize)
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Pretty much any artist that’s getting sued, in court, for plagiarism (i.e. they didn’t settle out of court beforehand) Any artist defendant,is going to say:
“Oh, I wasn’t aware that my song was so similar to that song” etc:
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It’s very possible, Harrison was “well aware” it was the same song.
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So my original post was just emphasizing the semantics of using the phrase (“subconsciously” plagiarize)
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I’m just making an analogy to somebody using an excuse as:
“Your Honor, I didn’t attack the plaintiff, his Face hit my Fist”
(“yeah, that’s the ticket”, I subconsciously didn’t know that was his face) 😅
Realistically, any U.S. court would probably rule that the more popular artist automatically counts as the original (regardless of actual timing).
Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" also sounds similar to Circle Jerks' "Product of My Environment
It's a very common I-IV-V riff. You can also hear similarities with Blue Oyster Cult, "Godzilla" and Boston, "More Than A Feeling."
Boston More Than A Feeling even the opening riff was slightly change
Not purely rip offs, but allegedly
Flowers by Miley Cyrus plagiarized When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars!
You can't plagiarize Bruno Mars. He makes no original music. Every song he does is a direct ripoff of someone else.
Only the chorus
@@mneugent7658his stuff is throwback inspired by MAN a ripoff? That stinks…
@@lessismore8533 It is definitely throwback inspired but man he gets wayyyy too close to just cloning. Hey, I think he's great but at no point ever in his catalog have I heard anything with an original twist or his own style. He reminds me of a great tribute band. I remember the first time I heard "Locked Out Of Heaven" I said "this is a Police song". But I did respect him a lot when he said in an interview how much he likes The Police.
2:36 Sara Bareilles joined Katy Perry on stage at “We Can Survive” radio concert and they performed Roar together (along with the other artists performing that night).
1:30 I thought it was Joe Satriani whose 2014 song "If I Could Fly" was ripped off by Coldplay's "Viva la Vida".
That Joe Satriani's song was released in 2004, only 4 years BEFORE "Viva la Vida".
I believe Coldplay when they said they never had the song... Really who had before the controversy
@@rafaelamadeus5155If I could Fly is from the 90s
I do know that a lot of bands from The British Invasion were really into Blues and Rock n' Roll from that era to the point of emulating their sound to their style of music. The Rolling Stones once pointed out the exact song that inspired one of their songs in a documentary. I think it was a Muddy Waters song. They didn't see it as plagiarism. It was more of playing homage to their heroes.
I figured « Dani California » by Red Hot Chilli Peppers would be compared with « Mary Jane’s Last Dance » by Tom Petty. Surprised it didn’t make the list!
@@Jaymus37 there was pressure from people for Tom Petty to sue RHCP and Petty was like no I really don't care that much
I don't know if this counts, because they were both big names at the time. Phil Collins Sussidio and Prince 1999. Phil Collins got sued by Prince for the opening keyboard number. And actually Phil was ordered to change it up as well. But they do sound a lot alike still.
Where is Oasis' Shakermaker 🤭
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Just because there are songs that sound similar to each other doesn't make them rip-offs, plus I grew up listening to Roar and Brave, I would always get the two songs mixed up, calling Roar by Katy Perry rip off is not only disrespectful, but also distasteful because it's an amazing song with a powerful message, do better Watchmojo! 😒😑🙄🤨😠🙄
Vanilla ice ice baby... Ding ding didggy ding ding.. Vanilla ice ice baby. 😁😬
Some songs ARE ripoff’s tho! Just not all of them . When you purposely take from another song without permission it’s considered a rip off..
@@Christophersanchez1326 that's a sample
Two of my all time favorite songs, Sweet Little Sixteen by Chuck Berry and Surfin' USA by the Beach Boys are virually identical.
"They're really rockin' in Boston, Pittsburgh, PA, San Anofree and Sunset, Redondo Beach LA, all over St Louis and down in New Orleans, everybody's gone surfin', with sweet little 16".
Chuck Berry has song writing credit on Sorfin' USA so not completely a ripoff.
Are any songs truly original? All songs have to get their inspiration from somewhere.
Exactly music runs all over itself
Right? The Beatles famously ripped off Mozart (I mean, sure, it’s public domain and we have lullabies that rip off Mozart, but still).
@@powerofk Mozart gave us _Twinkle Twinkle Little Star._
@@JamesDavy2009the alphabet song too, then, because...
ay bee cee dee eee eff gee, how i wonder what you are , up above the tee you vee, double you ecks, in the sky.....
@@johnpgizzi That's as funny as the Canadian version.
As a Bolivian I have to bring up Kaoma's "La lambada" riped off Los Kjarkas "Llorando se fue"
@@dennisg.rocavalenzuela5701 And Jennifer Lopez took the tunes from those songs as well with "On the Floor".
@@rafaelamadeus5155 Yes, but I think she, unlike Kaoma, pay the rights for the tune.
😊❤ i love katie perry
Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" and Van Halen's Jamie's Crying. Tone settled for $250,000 after Van Halen's management originally let the guitar lick go for $5,000.
Be that as it may, Coldplay is still the most unoriginal band in the world.
I should’ve known “Viva la vida” was too good to be true. That song is nearly perfect..
Doesn't fit the category, but Billy Ocean's "Caribbean Queen" rips off "Billie Jean"
😊❤gost busters songs livs on for ever ever
This one has been in my head when I noticed. I went through a massive Bollywood movie phase years ago. There was a smash hit Bollywood movie called Kuch Kuch Hota Hai in 1998...the songs were awsome but one of them was called Koi Mil Gaya...it was virtually an exact copy of Andrew Lloyd Webber's song Take that look off your face. I'm sure many Indians never knew much about Sir Andrew haha.