Monday, December 10, 2007

Pointing the finger at copycats not rare in the music business

John Key has found himself in hot water with EMI Records after a promotional DVD featured a song nearly identical to Coldplay's hit single Clocks.

While Key has been left red-faced by the blunder, he is not the first person to fall foul of the music industry's strict copyright laws.

Indeed, even superstars like Beyonce have been accused of musical plagiarism.

We took a trawl through the archives to see just who else is guilty of playing copycats.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=264&objectid=10480273



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