If you haven't heard... The White Stripes may go after the Air Force Reserve for using a re-recorded version of "Fell in Love With a Girl" in a SuperBowl ad.
The video has mostly disappeared. Here is where I found it. I assume it'll be pulled from here soon too though.
Sounds similar enough to me.
The Air Force said they hired a company to do the music.
The company said they hired a musician.
The musician said any resemblance is coincidental. "They said they wanted some high-energy music, and I gave them three demos, all of them a little bit different," he explained to EW. "They asked me to tweak the one that they preferred, so I beefed up the drums or whatnot, added some echo to my guitar part." After the Stripes released their statement, Kraft went to their website and admits the songs "sound close". "I might have [heard it] somehow or somewhere," he said, but he maintains that he doesn't listen to the White Stripes or that "kind of music". "I had no intention whatsoever of copying [the Stripes]. If [Jack White needs] me to pay the money back that I made, which was 2,000 bucks (£1,300) ... I will do that."
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Sounds very much alike. It's pulled now, looks like he unknowingly ripped them, the guy says he's sorry...this should be the end of it, right???
ReplyDeleteIt's still viewable on that Huffington link I included. Sounds alike to me.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what the solution should be, but I'm sure there's some sort of past precedent to be followed. They, maybe unknowingly, used the song to promote their business. How much, or how little, some schlub was paid to reproduce it is irrelevant. And, pulling it now seems almost silly. How many people saw it during the freakin' Super Bowl?!?? Millions! Compared to how many have heard that the White Stripes didn't endorse the use. Kinda hard to take that back. Consider though how few of those millions of people actually were familiar with the White Stripes song. I don't know.