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  • 11-03-2015 12:51am
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    MarkAnthony
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    So had a great lecture last week in Intellectual Property where we just sat round listening to rippoffs. Saw today that there's been a case of Marvin Gaye being ripped off. What ripoffs do you know?

    This one stunned me - The verve were sued over Bitter Sweet Symphony:



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    Wide Load
    Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭Wide Load


    Led Zeppelin were some lads for it back in the day!


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    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    The other one that get's me is the Ghostbusters theme tune was a rippoff!



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    Depraved
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭Depraved


    Hey I was about to make a thread about this, but now I can't because you'll take me to court for copying your content!

    Damn you to hell!!!


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    #5
    donegaLroad
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMdiRq0XKE


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    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3RP2ZbYXtk


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    Mint Aero
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    I've never heard that OP. Always thought the verve had a cracker there but now that I've heard the original it's sooooo much better. Hate when people murder classics


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    donegaLroad
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    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    So had a great lecture last week in Intellectual Property where we just sat round listening to rippoffs. Saw today that there's been a case of Marvin Gaye being ripped off. What ripoffs do you know?

    This one stunned me - The verve were sued over Bitter Sweet Symphony:


    the Verve got the permission of the Rolling Stones to use 'the riff' in Bitter Sweet Symphony... but when it hit the top of the charts, an ex manager of the Stones (forget his name) claimed he owned the rights of the Stone's material from that period and sued successfully.

    Moral of the story.... write your own stuff and dont be a musical magpie, which is kind of difficult now because there isn't much music out there that sounds totally unique.


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    MarkAnthony
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    Mint Aero wrote: »
    I've never heard that OP. Always thought the verve had a cracker there but now that I've heard the original it's sooooo much better. Hate when people murder classics

    It's my favourite song, has a bit of an outburst of disbelief that entertained a few in the front row!

    This got played by way of a bit of comic relief at the end!



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    Micky Dolenz
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    Got stung by a bee once.

    €15 for a jar of poxy honey. :mad:


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    johnny osbourne
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    i'd sell my granny for $500,000

    ok ok 200,000


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    Aenaes
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    Johnny Cash took Crescent City Blues and made it Folsom Prison Blues. He changed some words and the boom-chicka-boom sound is different but he ended up paying $75,000 (estimated, I think) in an out of court settlement.


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    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    There's a similarity between the music from Gladiator and Mars, Bringer of War, by Gustav Holst:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFswFI7fqxU


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    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Most Irish Trad songs.


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    The Backwards Man
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    My Town by Glass Tiger and Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough by Patty Smith and Don't Henley are eerily similar.


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