Coldplay Get Sued For Copyright Infringement, Again!
January 14th, 2010
This time the suit is being brought by songwriter Sammie Lee Smith who claims the band stole three of his songs, “Yellow,” “Clocks” and “Trouble“.
The accuser claims to have written all three tracks only to have the band steal all of them from him.
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Smith claims to have written and recorded “approximately 100 tapes, each tape containing approximately 40 songs” since 1976, three of them being the ones Chris Martin and co. reportedly stole from him.
The songwriter recently filed the lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court and is demanding the band stop playing the tracks and give him an unspecified amount of money.
This isn’t the first time Coldplay have been accused of copyright infringement in late 2008 musician Joe Satriani filed a lawsuit against the band claiming the bands single “Viva La Vida“, ripped of his 2004 song “If I Could Fly“.
Coldplay denied any wrong doing and Satriani later dropped the lawsuit.
Before the Satriani lawsuit Brooklyn band, Creaky Boards accused the British band of copyright infringement on a Youtube they posted in which they allege the melody for both their song and Coldplay’s new track sound very similar.
I had not realized that Coldplay had so many issues of this sort springing up.
theres only a certain number of ways to arrange music before it will become looped over and around… so did anyone see coldplay, before they gained the biggest band in the world title, breaking into his dudes moms basement! if so next time call 911, grab your cell phones and write some story with real proof. i’m not a coldplay fan but this is such a joke. wait i wrote them too because i saw these $igns… oh and i wrote something from a fart sounds just like coldplay… show me the money!!!
Ha what a f’n loser. Really, think it took this unknown long enough. Get over it. We all know it’s just for the ca$h.
Seriously. It’s a joke. Get back in your mum’s basement clown and make your own pounds.