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Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« on: October 05, 2009, 03:34:17 PM »
Two independent record labels sued U.S. rock band Guns N' Roses for $1 million, claiming the group used portions of two songs by a German musician on their last album Chinese Democracy.

Guns N' Roses and Universal Music Group's Interscope-Geffen A&M label were sued by British label Independiente and the US arm of Domino Recording Company, who own the licensing rights to songs by German electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss.

Singer Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses band members and album producers copied portions of two of Schnauss' songs -- "Wherever You Are" and "A Strangely Isolated Place" -- for a song used on the band's last album called "Riad N' the Bedouins," according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed on Friday but made available on Monday, seeks $1 million in damages. A spokesperson for Interscope-Geffen A&M, owned by Vivendi's Universal Music Group, was not available for comment.



http://chinese-democracy.blogspot.com/2009/10/guns-n-roses-sued-for-plagiarism.html
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Offline Randy B Lahey

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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2009, 03:39:15 PM »
I thought this was going to be about Dumbo suing GNR for plagiarizing him on Shackler's Revenge.

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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2009, 03:48:39 PM »
i don't hear it
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2009, 03:52:31 PM »
The intro part. It's right there.
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 03:54:00 PM »
Jesus just add another punch line for the Axl Critics and Chinese Democracy  >(
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2009, 04:05:24 PM »
You can use up to 15 seconds, for one.  The song as a whole doesn't sound anything like Rhiad, nor does it sound like more than 15 seconds were used  I would imagine it's a programmed sound on a touch pad and a coincidence.  This guy just wants his moment of fame.  Total jerkoff.
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2009, 04:08:00 PM »
lame accusation if the whole song was stolen i could understand but c'mon this about a short intro
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2009, 04:29:47 PM »
ha ha. fun and games.

out of court settlement or a protracted law suit? hmm.
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2009, 04:57:22 PM »
That would be pretty lame if they actually have to pay a million bucks for stealing the intro. Riad is a throwaway B side at best anyway. I'd be so upset that I'd cancel the tour over this if I were Axl.
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2009, 05:01:18 PM »
It's pathetic.




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Wherever You Are by Ulrich Schnauss is from 2002, according to the net, but the Riad intro might be older. Who knows.

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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2009, 05:05:58 PM »
it just gets worse for this album...
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2009, 05:08:04 PM »
Yup, thats the same intro. Who knows which one is older.
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2009, 05:15:48 PM »
maybe Ulrich Schnauss  was a producer on the album for a day or two, liked what he heard and split with it?
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Re: Guns N' Roses Sued for Plagiarism
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2009, 05:18:30 PM »
Someone on one of the boards (i think this one) noticed that intro and made a thread about it shortly after the release of CD.  What a trip.
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