AOL Music — Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has accused the members of Coldplay of lifting "substantial original portions" from one of his songs and using it in the band's recent hit, 'Viva La Vida.' With his copyright infringement suit, filed Thursday in Los Angel... more info

Paste Magazine — First, it was a Brooklyn-based band that was raining on the Coldplay hit parade. Creaky Boards lead singer Andrew Hoepfner posted a YouTube video claiming the U.K. group's title-track single "Viva La Vida" bore a "striking" similarity to a Boards s... more info

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ContactMusic — Coldplay face a plagiarism lawsuit after guitarist Joe Satriani accused the Grammy nominees of using one of his riffs.The 52-year-old's copyright infringement ... more info

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Yahoo! Music UK — Press Assoc. - Coldplay were being sued by a Los Angeles guitarist who claimed the Grammy-nominated band plagiarised one of his songs. more info

Yahoo! Music UK — Press Assoc. - Coldplay were being sued by a Los Angeles guitarist who claimed the Grammy-nominated band plagiarised one of his songs. more info

Perez Hilton — Rock guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay for copyright infringement. In a suit filed yesterday, Thursday, in Los Angeles federal court, Satriani claims that the band's hit song Viva La Vida contains "substantial original portions" of his 2... more info

NME — American guitarist Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay for plagiarism, after claiming that the band's recent single 'Viva La Vida' ripped off his 2004 song 'If I Could Fly'. more info