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There's also not just copying going on between different companies, but between different films by the same company. Check this for example.

Last year two record companies release different versions of the same song (Star 2 Fall and Falling Stars). [not to mention Mylo's In My Arms sample]

In the past year two record companies release different versions of the same song (Baywatch theme remix).

They've probably done it deliberately to generate publicity and stir interest, and therefore, boost sales and airplay of the said songs.

They say any publicity is good publicity. It's the same between the Eamonn and Frankee thing a while back - for anyone who's forgotten, he released a song about an ex of his, riddled with profanities and shortly after, another song came out from his alledged ex which had the same tune as his, but had alternative, and similarly asinine lyrics hitting back at him. Of course, the cynic in me just screams of ... it was set up by the men in suits. It's all a conspiracy, I tell you ...

Don't forget Armageddon and Deep Impact, both comet disaster movies, in the same summer (1998 from memory).

Plagiarising bastards!

nodnirG kraM wrote:Last year two record companies release different versions of the same song (Star 2 Fall and Falling Stars). [not to mention Mylo's In My Arms sample]

Used to be very commonplace. Back in the 1950s, when a song was "hot", all the different record companies would get artists on their roster to record songs. In 1955, 14 different versions of "Unchained Melody" came out on the same day.