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The Enmity : Joe Satriani VS Coldplay

Months ago in December 2008, Joe Satriani submit claim to the group from UK, Coldplay band to the top of the alleged plagiarism creation Joe Satriani song titled "If I Could Fly". If listened carefully, there be similarities between the melody creation Joe Satriani song titled "If I Could Fly" with the Coldplay song titled "Viva La Vida". Angry because alleged of plagiarism, the  Coldplay band group send their lawyer  to the court to submit for some reason they object to for alleged Joe and at the same time  plan to criticize Joe Satriani.

In defense of these states, Coldplay said that the track of Joe Satriani did not have a originalitas value so it is not feasible to get a copyright, and the similarity between the two songs are not significant enough to cause the loss of materials and non-material.In response to this, Joe Satriani said that in fact as much as possible  they want to avoid the legal route to resolve this problem. "I have been in any way I do to avoid the path of" Joe said.


Guitarist who ever became a teacher for several other renowned guitarist such as Steve Vai said that the motivation to demand only a matter of art without the problem who is right who is wrong. Joe Satriani further revealed: "All people think that I tried to throw Coldplay with the full sense of hatred, it is very far from my mind. I only do this only as artists who need to keep things that should be owned by me, and protect anything I pour through my songs. "

But now Joe Satriani's legal advisors team submit this issue to the court to decide. "I have been doing as much as possible to avoid the path of law on this situation but Coldplay does not want to discuss this in a family. They want this case continues, they may think that the guitarist will go by the board to leave them, I don't know. But here we are talking about works of art that I've created, that is the thing that I feel important. And everyone should think alike "said Joe.




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