A court in the US dismissed a lawsuit against U2’s alleged plagiarism
NEW YORK, January 31. /TASS./ Federal court for the southern district of new York dismissed on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by British composer and guitarist Paul rose, who accused the Irish rock band U2 in plagiarism. This was reported by Reuters.
Accusations against U2 rose made in February last year. He claimed that the group had borrowed a 12-second guitar solo of his instrumental compositions Nae Slappin’. The Irish allegedly used this passage in his song The Fly included in the 1991 album Achtung Baby. The British demanded compensation in the amount of at least $5 million from U2 and the record company Island Records.
The lawyers group, in turn, pointed out that in General “between songs is no similarity”. They expressed confidence that the same conclusion will come any jury.
According to Reuters, the trial judge Denise Cote said that the small piece of music in the theft which rose accuses the Irish team, is not “sufficiently significant” part of a 3.5-min Nae Slappin ‘ to be able to talk about the full plagiarism. In any case, the court was unable to conclude that the musicians of U2 purposefully copied the specified solo, said Cote.
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The band U2 was founded in Ireland in 1977, Paul David Houston (alias Bono) and his school friends. In 1979 the musicians were widely known. On account of 22 Grammy award, more than in any other group in the world. In 2005, U2 was included in the American Hall of fame rock-n-roll.
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