{"id":869,"date":"2011-07-18T14:04:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2013-06-28T13:39:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:39:38","slug":"another-case-of-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/another-case-of-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Case of Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Leona Lewis has been accused of plagiarism, after releasing a song called &#8220;Collide&#8221;, which has exactly the same piano track as a song by up and coming DJ Avici.\u00a0 This time, when listening to both, there is no doubt in my mind that they are the same.\u00a0 The piano melody is even the same key&#8230;no attempt to hide anything there!\u00a0 Listen for yourself.\u00a0 First Leona Lewis&#8217; track &#8220;Collide&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7sG2Ebnn6A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now Avici&#8217;s track, &#8220;Penguin&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSkgJHeUoXg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since Avici is considered and up-and-coming star of the DJ circuit, you&#8217;d think they would have better sense!\u00a0 On the other hand, Leona Lewis&#8217; record label, Simon Cowell&#8217;s Syco, claims it had properly credited the DJ on the Lewis release.\u00a0 I wonder if it&#8217;s considered okay to use a track without first asking permission, regardless of the credit?\u00a0 This will be an interesting story to follow.<\/p>\n<p>IJ<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=667c23ca-c7b5-412b-8a84-d72997212806\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-9055632105156461\"; \/* Half Banner for Blogs *\/ google_ad_slot = \"8550216682\"; google_ad_width = 234; google_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Leona Lewis has been accused of plagiarism, after releasing a song called &#8220;Collide&#8221;, which has exactly the same piano track as a song by up and coming DJ Avici.\u00a0 This time, when listening to both, there is no doubt in my mind that they are the same.\u00a0 The piano melody is even the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[250,247,320,109,248,249,251],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-opinion","tag-disc-jockey","tag-leona-lewis","tag-music","tag-record-label","tag-simon-cowell","tag-syco","tag-track-and-field"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prwoq-e1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}