wtf coldplay???

Seems like Coldplay's most recent album, Viva la Vida or Death to all His Friends, isn't very original. Check this:

"Everybody assumes I'm trying to go after these guys in Coldplay, as if I'm doing this with malice, that's the furthest thing from my mind. I'm just doing what I need to do as an artist, to protect what's mine, to protect those feelings I put down in song," Satriani says.
He added, "I did everything I could to avoid a court case with this situation. But oldplay didn't want to talk about it. They just wanted this whole thing to go away. Maybe they figured this little guitar player guy will leave them alone after a while, I don't know. But we're talking about a piece of art that I created, and that's something I feel is important. I think everybody should feel that way."
According to Satriani, there were never any doubts in his mind that "Viva La Vida" had taken elements from his own song. "I felt like a dagger went right through my heart. It hurt so much. The second I heard it, I knew it was ‘If I Could Fly’," he says. Satriani isn’t the only one who hears a similarity; he says his fans do to. "Almost immediately, from the minute their song came out, my e-mail box flooded with people going, ‘Have you heard this song by Coldplay? They ripped you off man,’" he says. "I mean, I couldn't tell you how many e-mails I received. Everybody noticed the similarities between the songs. It's pretty obvious."
Coldplay have yet to release a statement regarding Satriani’s lawsuit but this isn’t the first time the band has been accused of plagiarism. Earlier this year the lead singer of The Creaky Boards accused the band of stealing "Viva La Vida" from one of their own songs, ironically titled "The Songs I Didn’t Write". The case fell through when The Creaky Boards couldn’t offer sufficient evidence that proved their accusations.

Source: www.ultimate-guitar.com

Evidence :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ofFw9DKu_I&eurl=http://www.omelete.com.br/musi/100016894.aspx

Edited by CCVP - December 10 2008 at 10:43

I heard Eugène Delacroix sued Coldplay for using his famous painting "La liberté guidant le peuple" as their album cover.

That melody that Satriani is suing over definitely bears a similarity. The whole sequence isn't the same rhythmically, but most of the notes (at the beginning particularly) sound the same. However, I don't think Coldplay listens to Joe, and I think that melody is a very simple one; anyone could have written that before either of those two. Furthermore, I don't think Coldplay and Joe share many fans. I don't think Coldplay fans are going to stop listening to "Viva la Vida" and listen to "If I Could Fly" for enjoyment or for the principle.

Bern wrote: Vompatti wrote: Bern wrote: I heard Eugène Delacroix sued Coldplay for using his famous painting "La liberté guidant le peuple" as their album cover. I heard Eugène Delacroix died a while before the album was released. I heard that I already knew that.

i lol'd so f*cking hard. OMG!

So they have some to share ?

Having listened to the Satriani song a few times, there is a definite similarity between a guitar motif and the verse melody of Viva La Vida, however the rest of the tracks aren't that similar. The Coldplay song is based around a fairly basic 4 chord sequence so isn't that original. It would be very hard to prove that Coldplay had actually ripped off Satriani.

There's another band who claim coldplay stole there song and Chris Martin was even seen at there gig.I personaly don't think Coldplay have plagirised.