When it comes to the arts, especially those arts that incline to be commercial and bring in living wage revenue to its creators and in some cases extreme amounts of cash that need to be carted around in the back of Brinks trucks, there is no uglier accusation than that of plagiarism. When you point that finger you are in essence saying that “your artistic soul is unclean, you are a thief of other’s hard fought ideas” so you better really have your facts straight before charging down that road.

However when it comes to actually holding up two different works of art for examination and those certain similarities come glaring out at you, it’s hard not to invite such accusations. In the case of Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” this kind of thing has now come up not once… but twice by two different artists.

This week in an L.A. federal court, virtuoso guitar-slinger Joe Satriani filed a copyright infringement suit against Coldplay for cribbing his 2004 instrumental “If I Could Fly”. Someone has already put a video up on the net comparing the two. Check it out and you decide if the two songs are “similar”.

Those of you who tend to care about such things, such as the shittiness of Coldplay may remember that not too long ago unsigned band Creaky Boards put this video up on the interweb detailing the similarities between “Viva La Vida” and their song, ironically titled “The Songs I Didn’t Write”.

So, plagarism or sheer coincedence? As I was discussing with a successful author friend of mine just this morning, parallel development does happen. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what the courts say about this one.

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