Joe Satriani vs. Coldplay

Jay Parkhill December 7th, 2008

Plenty of mashups have ended up in copyright disputes and litigation over sampling rights. Here’s one that runs things in the other direction.

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Joe Satriani sued Coldplay last week for plaigiarizing his song If I Could Fly in Coldplay’s Viva La Vida.  Someone made a mashup of the two songs after the suit was filed to show the similarities, reversing the normal order of these things and making a case of life imitating litigation.

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