Plagiarism?

Legendary Guns N’Roses, which was recently accused of plagiarism had totally denied all of it like never before. As Rolling Stone magazine said, the band’s representative Irving Azoff told the public that everybody in Guns N’Roses “vigorously contests these claims and intends to respond accordingly.” Two independent record labels, British Independiente and it’s American branch Domino Recording Company have started the court procedure against Axl Rose on October 5. They insist on the fact that Guns N’Roses without any consent with them had used fragments of Ulrich Schnauss’ (German musician) “Wherever You Are” and “A Strangely Isolted Place” on their “Riad N’ the Bedouins”, which was released on the latest album “Chinese Democracy”. The following record labels have rights to Schnauss’ music and currently will ask Interscope-Geffen A&M for one million dollars of compensation. Azoff has underlined that “the band believed when the record came out and still believes that there are no unauthorized samples on the track”. Again, things of this nature happen again and again among musicians, and honestly, most of them never really turn into reality. A lot of music tracks sound similar, sometimes almost identical, but at the same time there is no act of plagiarism. This time it may not go anywhere because most likely nobody will prove Gn’R’s possible sample taking process. Most likely it just did not happen.

A Source: ThatsJustMusic.com