Tom Petty to get songwriting royalties for Sam Smith song "Stay With Me"

[weed]

I can't stop laughing. dude does look like Boy George.

 

[Wrath621]

Wasn't the first guy in that band you really like? (Wink wink, nudge nudge).

Yes I like them but not nearly as much as you despise them.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

I liked Sam Smith much more when I thought he was a soulful black dude.
I can't even watch him sing.

 

[Wrath621]

I remember when Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker, Jr.

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[Viva]

Ghostbusters is way better

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Does anybody remember John Forgerty got sued by Fantasy Inc. because this song:

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was a "rip off" of this song:

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Fantasy Inc. owned the rights to Credence Clearwater Revival's catalog.

 

[Viva]

"Bustin' makes me feel good"

That's a lyric in Ghostbusters

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Fogerty won. I don't know the exact reasoning.

 

[Serana]

I hate that song.

 

[johnyboy]

"Bustin' makes me feel good"

That's a lyric in Ghostbusters

You disagree?

 

[Simian Raticus]

"Bustin' makes me feel good"

That's a lyric in Ghostbusters

Resonates so deep.

 

[RoadKing Custom]

Yes I like them but not nearly as much as you despise them.

I'm sorry Wrath, I don't despise them. I enjoy them more than I let on. But I do enjoy slinging harmless shit at you about them. Forgive me.

 

[carlos cadona]

Godsmack has ripped off nine inch nails and to a much lesser extent Alice in chains.

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The NIN one was pretty blatant.

 

[punkmother]

Singing like a bitch, is what I think he means.

say what you want, but dude can (and likely did) sing his balls off.

 

[kurtwpg]

Its the same melody, like exactly. And its in the same key.

Difference is, Smith's song has no balls at all.

Smith will back down.

 

[punkmother]

Fogerty won. I don't know the exact reasoning.

don't know if joking. but that is one of the most comical lawsuits of all time.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

don't know if joking. but that is one of the most comical lawsuits of all time.

Its a true story.
I don't know if he won because he's wrote both songs, or if there was a different chord in one of the songs that differentiated them.

 

[Wrath621]

I'm sorry Wrath, I don't despise them. I enjoy them more than I let on. But I do enjoy slinging harmless shit at you about them. Forgive me.

Nothing harmless about your shit but I do indeed forgive you.

I win

 

[Yecny]

Don't you think a company would sue Radiohead, especially for Creep royalties, if the songs were actually identical?

People think that similar notes in sections of chord progressions and similar timing means someone rips something off lol.

 

[mma midwest fan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia

I have a hard time accepting this as copyright violation, but clearly Sam and company did not want to fight it. It is very similar, perhaps inspired, but if it's violation, then 80% of the blues is copyright violation. And the blues is the bedrock of modern popular music.

Those three notes at the top of the refrain, over the same chords...if Sam had just changed one of those notes, he would probably have been clear.