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October
5th 2009
Fergie Sued For Plaigiarism

Posted under Free for All UK & The Beatles & Fergie & chris martin & george harrison & will.i.am & gwyneth platrow

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The Big Girls Don’t Cry singer, Fergie and fellow Black Eyed Pease band member Will.I. Am are facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over one of Fergie’s songs from her latest solo album The Duchess.

The Northern California-based, nine-piece collective who’s music is reggae infused with elements of jazz and funk are suing for allegedly ripping off their song, stating that Voodoo Doll, co-written by Fergie and will.i.am, is “substantially and strikingly similar” to Waterfall, from Groundation’s album “Each One Teach One.”

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But Fergie isn’t the first singer to be hit with such a suit. Former Beatle guitarist, George Harrison spent years battling a legal suit relating to his hit, My Sweet Lord, which the Chiffons insisted he had plagiarized from their 1963 hit, He’s So Fine. The case continued almost up until the time Harrison died of cancer.

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Coldplay’s lead singer and husband of Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin, came under fire this year over claims that he plagiarized the work of Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, after he claimed that Foreigner Suite is behind the band’s recent hit, Viva La Vida.

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Avril Lavigne has also been accused of plagiarism on two separate occasions with the same song, her single, Girlfriend, was cited as sounding too similar to Tony Basil’s Mickey, and again the song Girlfriend was sued for a plagiarism by songwriters, The Rubinoos” who’s ‘catchy little single I Wanna be Your Boyfriend released in 1979 was thought to have been ripped off by Lavigne for her lyrics in the song Girlfriend when she used the line, “Hey hey you, I wanna be your girlfriend” while in The Rubinoos the lyric went, “Hey hey you, I want to be your boyfriend”.

The case against Fergie continues.

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