Adele and more: remember the international artists accused of plagiarizing Brazilians

The Rio de Janeiro court has ordered the removal of the British singer’s song “Million Years Ago” from all digital platforms for plagiarizing the Brazilian song “Mulheres”, performed by Martinho da Vila

THE Justice of Rio de Janeiro determined that music Millions of years ago, From Adelebe removed from all digital platforms for plagiarizing the Brazilian song Women, played by Martinho da Vila.

The sentence was signed by Victor Agustin Cunha, judge of the Court of Justice of the State of Rio de Janeiro. He stated it Millions of years ago has strong evidence of the “nearly integral melodic consonance” of Women. However, Adele is not the first international singer accused of plagiarizing Brazilian songs. Check out more cases below.

Jorge Ben Jor

In 1978, Rod Stewart released the song Da Ya think I’m sexy?with similar rhythm and melody to Taj Mahal, From Well, album by Jorge Ben Jor. The Brazilian sued the American, who acknowledged plagiarism, but said he “had no intention of doing so.” The money raised from the action was donated to Unicef. Compare the songs below:

Jorge Ben Jor

The group Black Eyed Peas was sued by the Brazilian singer in 1999. Jorge Ben Jor accused the band of plagiarism in three songs: fall, which contains an unauthorized sample of Comanche; Positivitywith an excerpt from Five minutes; AND A8 which is plagiarism The man with the floral tie.

Ultimately, he was credited on all three songs.

Luiz Bonfa

Gotye admitted he was inspired Sevilleby Luiz Bonfá, to create the famous song Somebody that I Used to Know. He recognized the plagiarism and compensated the family of the singer, who died in 2001 due to prostate cancer.

Gilberto Gil

Tyler, The Creator came out last year Season 2 of le Fluer to promote his clothing brand, Golf Le Fleur. As soon as the song was released, Brazilian internet users pointed out the similarity with Double meaning, by Gilberto Gil.

The use of the song was not permitted by the singer and Sony Music Publishing, which owns the rights to the song. The negative repercussions caused the advertising to be suspended and the American rapper paid the parties involved R$245,000.

Flora Matos x Beyoncé

In April, Flora Matos accused Beyoncé of plagiarism. The rapper claims that the American singer was inspired Pilot write Bodyguard. He also sought help from lawyers specializing in the matter, but did not speak further on the matter.

Hermeto Pascoal x X-Men

In February, Internet users began speculating that the opening song of X-Men be plagiarism cheerful parrot, song by Hermeto Pascoal. He spoke about the case in an interview with at the time Metropolis and said he believes the opening is not plagiarism.

“It’s a variation, but this composer definitely knows my music,” he said. He also revealed that he doesn’t care about the alleged use of his music in the series.

*Intern under the supervision of Charlise Morais

Source: Terra

Earl

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