Pedro Innecco

In recent news, the band Coldplay has been sued by guitar-legend Joe Satriani for plagiarism. Satriani claims that Coldplay’s Viva La Vida “incorporates substantial original portions of his 2004 instrumental If I Could Fly” (Reuters).

An uncanny coincidence or a total rip-off? Well just watch this Youtube video and decide for yourself.

Unfortunately this is not the first case of plagiarism in the music industry, and many cases which are in fact of a much higher profile tend to go unoticed. For instance, check out this Led Zeppelin video.

Sigh… And they used to be my biggest idols! Don’t get me wrong they still rock and I didn’t throw away my Led Zeppelin CDs. But I simply can’t respect them like I used to.