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Joe Satriani v. Christopher Martin et al. (Coldplay) is back in the news now that laywers for Coldplay and Capitol Records have filed their responses to Satriani’s copyright infringement claim. They list nine defenses, including the tack that Satriani’s song “lacks originality and is thus not protectable by copyright”.  This was the argument of our previous post on the case, where we provided several songs, spanning decades, which share the same melodic structure as the tunes under litigation.  Still there were those partisans who were unconvinced and claimed that if we would only transcribe the two melodies — the chorus of  “If I Could Fly” and the opening verse of “Viva la Vida” — we’d see that they are note-for-note identical and that Coldplay’s collective goose is cooked.  We transcribe, you decide. Continue for more.

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