Thread: Think Tom Petty's gonna sue?
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Old 06-24-2006, 12:53 PM   #9
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Oh yeah, the point. Forgot that. Anyway, I mean, there's sounding like, and ripping off. And what I've heard of the songs, they do kind of sound alike, but I don't know about ripped off. It seems a stretch already, and I haven't evenm really compared songs, just the intros.

Note Rolling Stone reported this rumour 3 weeks ago (I was just reminded of it by the radio this morning), so I don't think there's much of an issue. I also loved it, because the DJ asked Petty not to sue, and then played one of his song intros back to back with another guy's song intro.

So yeah. I mean, it's impossible these days to come up with something that doesn't sound similar to something else (There was a Brittney Spears or Christina Aguillera song I used in theory and compared to a Mozart piece, structurally...I wonder if I still have that paper...), the question is ripping off. Some people say the lyrics are similar, or the vocals, or the whole song is similar, and maybe that's an issue.
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