Coldplay had been sued over allegedly copying a song from Joe Satriani, titled “If I Could Fly” for their song “Viva La Vida”.

Satriani claimed that the band plagiarized his song and I believed it, as well, due to the similarities in both. The case was dismissed yesterday in a California Court.
NME reports, “Now, according to News.justia.com, the case was dismissed yesterday (September 14) in California Central District Court “upon stipulation”, suggesting that an out-of-court settlement may have been reached.”
That’s the end of that.
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Eighties band Men At Work are being confronted with a plagiarism lawsuit over their popular song, “Land Down Under”.

Check out the song, below, for a refresher:
The song was released in 1982, on their album, “Business As Usual”.
A music publisher, Larrikin Music, claims that the band stole the flute melody from a popular children’s song called, “Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree”. The children’s song was written by Marion Sinclair for the Girl Guides in 1934.
The band claims that they bought the copyright to the song in 1990. An Australian judge ruled that the …read more

It was recently reported that John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono was suing Lennon Murphy for using the name, “Lennon” as her band name.
Sources say that Yoko “Nono” is hitting out at these “hurtful” reports, insisting that she hasn’t taken any legal action against Murphy. The suit was alleging that Murphy registered “Lennon” as a trademark and was tarnishing her late husband’s name.
Yoko says that she simply tried to stop her from getting the exclusive rights to use the name Lennon for performance purposes by notifying the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Ono says, “I am really hurt …read more

Madonna Wayne Gacy, former keyboard player for Marilyn Manson, launched a lawsuit against the morbid rocker for breach of contract. In the lawsuit, Gacy AKA Stephen Bier, alleged that Manson used band money to purchase weird artifacts, instead of giving him his rightful split.
Manson has upped the ante now by countersuing Bier. He is stating in the new lawsuit that his business partnership with Bier was dissolved in the mid ’90s because Bier didn’t carry out agreed obligations.
Will the lawsuit tag ever end???