As I was driving home today, I heard a story on NPR about how Coldplay is being sued by guitarist Joe Satriani for copying their Viva La Vida from his If I Could Fly. They said there was a YouTube video demonstrating the similarities between Coldplay's Viva La Vida and Satriani's If I Could Fly, which is purely instrumental. Actually, I found 2 ( Read more... )

I heard that a link to this website was posted on The Leaky Cauldron earlier today. Its intention is obviously mean-spirited ("How does it feel, Steve?"), aside from the copyright issue of exactly reproducing parts of the Lexicon. (I'm not certain it reproduces the entire Lexicon, since many of the links seem not to work ( Read more... )