Are Coldplay the Plagiarists?

Plagiarism is when you steal the thoughts, ideas and words of another author and claim it as your own work. This includes anything from images, to even music because after all, they're all someone's spark of genius.

Just a day ago, award winning British band Coldplay was accused of plagiarism by guitarist Joe Satriani. At first I was pretty shocked, but it really sparked my interest. As you know (or maybe you don't know), I'm working on a research about plagiarism, and well, while I'm no expert, I have read enough to spot plagiarism when I see (or hear) one. And while the scope of my research is mainly plagiarism in academic writing, I did come across one journal article on hip hop sampling (reusing parts of a certain music piece into creating a new one) and how sampling isn't plagiarism. Therefore, did Coldplay's guitarist plagiarize?
well, if sampling isn't plagiarism, then what is the big deal about this lawsuit? Although sampling isn't plagiarism, there's a universal rule for reusing anything, from a paragraph to images to anything that isn't originally yours. In fact, it's simple. Just one word. RECOGNITION. Whatever you use, acknowledge your source. You could have reworded it or made it slightly different or turned a rock piece into some samba music. People have ears you know.. they know (especially if it was you who originally wrote that piece). Perhaps it was different for me, I've never heard of Joe Satriani. But the minute I heard his song on youtube, I immediately knew why he had accused Coldplay of stealing his song. It was similar. A bit too suspiciously similar. Not the whole song of course, but it was enough. There are much debate over this issue, and how melodies have often end up sounding the same.. blah blah blah. In that case, the same string of words and sentences can also somehow end up together and accidently and coincidentally looking like the original author's piece of work.
It's all an excuse. An excuse of a true plagiarist.

And even more disgustingly, Coldplay had this to say:

“We’re definitely good, but I don’t think you can say we’re that original,” he notes. “I regard us as being incredibly good plagiarists.” - Rolling Stone Magazine


wow, incredibly good plagiarists?? So now, being a good plagiarist is something to boast about?! Gosh. Go figure! With that statement itself, I really hope they lose the lawsuit.

And for your viewing pleasure, here's what I found. Some guy made a video to help you see the similarities between Coldplay's Viva La Vida and Joe Satriani's If I Could Fly. Now you can be the judge of whether they are the incredibly good plagiarists or just plain unoriginal losers who ran out of ideas for a good melody.

Seeing colors

According to people..

Pink is the new black..

Green is the new pink...


In that case, what color is the new green?

I think I'm becoming color blind.