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Red Hot Chili Peppers accused of plagiarism

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Bob Saccamano

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http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/...d_in_plagiarism.html

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According to a recent Drowned In Sound report, a US radio presenter has accused the Red Hot Chili Peppers of plagiarism, claiming that the band's "Dani California" single is near identical to Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance".

Dan Gaffney, of Delaware-based WGMD, told his listeners of the similarities. Subsequently, the show's producer Jared Morris told reporters:

"The chord progression, the melody, the tempo, the key, the lyrical theme... they're identical."
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Here is a site where a guy has mixed the two songs and you can here how they are the same.

http://www.jared-morris.com/blog/petty.mp3
 
Plagiarism is the most sincere form of flattery.

That being said, way too much of it takes place in the music industry. Rap is almost 100% plagiarism with its sampled beats that grew out of music written in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Todays rock has many chord progressions that are identical to ones in the past. Hell, even Andrew Lloyd Webber sampled Pink Floyd in his Phantom of the Opera.

Where does it end?

As long as you acknowledge where you take the music from, I think it's just fine.
 
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Golferdow01 said:
Wasn't it Beethoven who stole so much of Mozart's work?

Totally unrelated to your post BTW :)
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Variations based on Figaro, similarities between piano concerti, yes, but "stealing," no. Beethoven did incorporate material of other composers but as references for ideas and structures that were his own (less closely copied than when Billy Joel used one of his sonata movements for "This Night," though credit was given for that "loan"). A friend of mine thinks he found such a connection in one of the symphonies, something that hasn't been suggested before... and it's pretty convincing stuff. I've been waiting six years for him to finish that paper...
 
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Plagiarism is the most sincere form of flattery.

That being said, way too much of it takes place in the music industry. Rap is almost 100% plagiarism with its sampled beats that grew out of music written in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Todays rock has many chord progressions that are identical to ones in the past. Hell, even Andrew Lloyd Webber sampled Pink Floyd in his Phantom of the Opera.

Where does it end?

As long as you acknowledge where you take the music from, I think it's just fine.
 
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LoKyBuckeye said:
Plagiarism is the most sincere form of flattery.

That being said, way too much of it takes place in the music industry. Rap is almost 100% plagiarism with its sampled beats that grew out of music written in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Todays rock has many chord progressions that are identical to ones in the past. Hell, even Andrew Lloyd Webber sampled Pink Floyd in his Phantom of the Opera.

Where does it end?

As long as you acknowledge where you take the music from, I think it's just fine.
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Outstanding post Loky
 
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LoKyBuckeye said:
Plagiarism is the most sincere form of flattery.

That being said, way too much of it takes place in the music industry. Rap is almost 100% plagiarism with its sampled beats that grew out of music written in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Todays rock has many chord progressions that are identical to ones in the past. Hell, even Andrew Lloyd Webber sampled Pink Floyd in his Phantom of the Opera.

Where does it end?

As long as you acknowledge where you take the music from, I think it's just fine.
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Quote me you little prick :p
 
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