All One Direction Songs vs The Who, Grease, The Clash, etc
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Captainarjay
Queen-Under Pressure vs. Vanilla Ice-Ice Ice Baby
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#4
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glennobrien
"Taurus" (Spirit) vs "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin)
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glennobrien
Ooh! My Head (Ritchie Valens) vs Boogie with Stu (Led Zeppelin)
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glennobrien
11 years ago Report
Led Zeppelin paid a settlement to the publisher of Ritchie Valens' song "Ooh! My Head" over "Boogie with Stu" which borrowed heavily from Valens' song.
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glennobrien
Taj Mahal (Jorge Ben Jor) vs Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (Rod Stewart)
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glennobrien
11 years ago Report
Rod Stewart was successfully sued by Brazilian songwriter Jorge Ben Jor, over "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" melody and chorus similarities to Ben's 1972 song "Taj Mahal"
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glennobrien
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree (Marion Sinclair) vs Down Under (Men at Work)
On 4 February 2010, Justice Peter Jacobson (of the Federal Court of Australia) ruled that Larrikin's copyright had been infringed because "Down Under" reproduced "a substantial part of Kookaburra".
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glennobrien
Till You (Ray Repp) vs Theme from "The Phantom of the Opera" (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
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glennobrien
11 years ago Report
In 1998, a jury found Webber not liable for plagiarism.
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glennobrien
I Won't Back Down (Tom Petty) vs Stay with Me (Sam Smith)