A palate cleanser via Patterico. Think of it as the musical equivalent of the Coleman/Franken ballot challenge, with Franken as a bald guitar wizard and Coleman an insufferably precious pop band. Satriani filed suit in L.A. last week; if you think he has no chance of winning, you don’t know very much about copyright law.
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That said, I’m leaning towards “no infringement.” Yeah, there’s a “striking similarity” between those three notes, but it’s three notes. The rest of it’s in the ballpark but not so close that I’m willing to hand over the profits to a global hit because of it. Besides, do Coldplay look like they listen to Joe Satriani? Next case!
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