{"id":439877,"date":"2010-03-17T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100316\/1643598590.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:36:00","slug":"eddy-grant-accuses-gorillaz-of-copying-after-gorillaz-manager-threatens-people-for-copying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439877","title":{"rendered":"Eddy Grant Accuses Gorillaz Of Copying After Gorillaz Manager Threatens People For Copying…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the music press has been busy talking about the accusations from Eddy Grant that the band Gorillaz copied his old tune<\/a> with one of their recent hits. You can compare the two songs here. There appear to be some similarities, but they’re pretty different songs:
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\nThe timing on this is a bit interesting. Gorillaz is a band from Damon Albarn, and just a couple months ago, the manager of Albarn’s musical acts (Blur, Gorillaz) was screaming about how he wanted to give “pirates” who leaked the Gorillaz album a “good kicking.”<\/a> Perhaps he ought to stay away from Eddy Grant for a bit.<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s a bit silly for Grant to be upset too. He wrote a song that was popular years ago, and now he wants free cash because some other band made a song that has some vague similarities?<\/p>\n

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So, the music press has been busy talking about the accusations from Eddy Grant that the band Gorillaz copied his old tune with one of their recent hits. You can compare the two songs here. There appear to be some similarities, but they’re pretty different songs: The timing on this is a bit interesting. Gorillaz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}