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Old 02-21-2009, 06:41 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by McNally View Post
On Coldplay's X&Y album, the song "Talk" is built around the main melody of an old Kraftwerk song. Kraftwerk is notoriously unwilling to sample their music, but Johnny Coldplay wrote them a letter in broken german and they agreed.

Since that precedent was set, it seems less likely that Coldplay would try to "get one over" by stealing from Joe Satriani. If they had realized the similarity, it seems like they would have asked him. I'm not sure where I stand on the legalities of it, but based on the past I give Coldplay some benefit of the doubt.
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