Radiohead Sues Lana for Copyright Infringement on "Get Free"

[CatchTheBreeze 1,681]

I'm really starting to dislike Radiohead now... I'm a great fan of their early albums (#2 and #3), but now I'm actually having trouble enjoying their music. Btw Radiohead should stop sueing other artists and start writing good music with memorable melodies again, like they did in the 90's.

[Dominikx4 25,025]

perfect time to promote this tweet now http://twitter.com/13_Beaches/status/902273839941517313

[Yosemite 23,566]

This is truly sad. More controversy and people dissing her like they know any of her songs talking about how shitty they am or that they don't play on the radio (like she wants that).

 

Just tweeted again, it's making me feel real sad

https://twitter.com/thatboycinna/status/950435843470168064

[UltraHeroin 8,801]

ok I'm done fighting people it's too much negative energy I need a break..Imma go listen to get free 

[yourboy 3,249]

Get Free remains the best album finisher yet

[theviolence 5,828]

The fantano video just summed it all up really, and I doubt this will really amount to anything major apart from an out of court settlement

[Doll Harlow 12,350]

At least this gives exposure to one of her best songs. I hope that some people will see more than the lawsuit and actually like the song. The like to dislike ratio of Get Free on youtube is pretty depressing though.

[latothemoon 11,827]

Lol she's trending on Apple Music. Get Free an incoming smasher ladies!

[graham4anything 2,859]

kiddies you got to remember something-

let's say the lawyers hammer it out, and RadioH gets 40 to 50%.

Of course, Albert Hammond is going to want his fair share (being that it is his song more than RadioH

 

so that means another huge chunk.

It's a no win situation.

 

And if you were Albert Hammond, and already successfully won a suit vs. RadioH it goes without saying he will need something

(along with his and Mike Hazelwood's name on the credits) too.

 

 

 

 

[Terrence Loves Me 71,703]

The judge when Thom starts playing Creep

 

The judge when Lana starts playing Get Free

 

CASE CLOSED.

[Macintosh Manhattan 6,505]

All those years Lana has spent building her reputation, slowly getting acclaim and respect gone down the toilet in a matter of a few days. It reeks of greed and misogyny,pure and simple.

 

RIP to the small chance she might of actually won the Grammy aswell and actually her attending the event. They certainly won't give it to her now FFS.

[graham4anything 2,859]

Picture this at the Grammys

 

​go back a little bit prior to perhaps the single greatest Grammy moment of all time

​Neil Diamond releases an album with a solo song on it

​Barbra Streisand 

some dj puts them together

​Neil and Barbra appear on the Grammy's in the single most electrifying duet on the grammy's (perhaps later rivaled by Elton/Eminem)

 

​someone call Neil Portonow and have a duet of Creep/Get Free/Air that I breathe on the show

 

(of course, Lana won't perform on tv, but its a nice thought)

[evilentity 13,303]

Whether it's legally actionable is anyone's guess, but I see many people in this thread are in stan denial about the significant similarities between the verses of "Get Free" and "Creep"-- not just in the chord progressions, but the melodies. I mean, it's so blatant that many, many reviews noted it at the time of the release, one even predicting legal action. Here's just a sampling from several major publications:

 

The closing track, Get Free, is an overly wordy manifesto for personal change completely undermined by the fact that she has blatantly stolen the verse chord progression and melody from Radiohead’s Creep, a much better outsider pop manifesto. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if law suits ensue. Well, even beautiful people have problems.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/lana-del-rey-lust-life-review-pop-star-selfie-generationis-real/

 

It’s unfortunate that she has borrowed so heavily from Radiohead’s “Creep” on closing track “Get Free”, while it’s undoubtably a tribute to one of the few songs that can make her music seem upbeat, it jars on an album where, for the most part, her influences have been more subtly worked into the instrumentation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-album-review-tracklist-features-the-weeknd-aap-rocky-a7852166.html

 

And she closes the album with “Get Free,” which hints at both old girl-group songs and Radiohead’s “Creep” as she resolves to dump someone: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/arts/music/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-review.html

 

As for the music, ["Get Free"] has all the signature elements of a Lana production, circa Born To Die: the surf guitars, breathy sighs and nostalgic melodies. (In this case, the verses evoke Radiohead‘s “Creep.”)

https://muumuse.com/2017/07/lana-del-rey-get-free.html/

 

In typical Del Rey fashion, there’s homage paid to other artists: alongside nods to The Beatles, finale track “Get Free” bears a not-so-subtle similarity to the chords on Radiohead’s “Creep”

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-review

[Lust 4,031]

All those years Lana has spent building her reputation, slowly getting acclaim and respect gone down the toilet in a matter of a few days. It reeks of greed and misogyny,pure and simple.

RIP to the small chance she might of actually won the Grammy aswell and actually her attending the event. They certainly won't give it to her now FFS.

Someone said voting season is over so maybe not. And it's really not that serious, alot of people are on Lana's side

[WildMustang 14,725]

 

Whether it's legally actionable is anyone's guess, but I see many people in this thread are in stan denial about the significant similarities between the verses of "Get Free" and "Creep"-- not just in the chord progressions, but the melodies. I mean, it's so blatant that many, many reviews noted it at the time of the release, one even predicting legal action. Here's just a sampling from several major publications:

 

The closing track, Get Free, is an overly wordy manifesto for personal change completely undermined by the fact that she has blatantly stolen the verse chord progression and melody from Radiohead’s Creep, a much better outsider pop manifesto. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if law suits ensue. Well, even beautiful people have problems.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/lana-del-rey-lust-life-review-pop-star-selfie-generationis-real/

 

It’s unfortunate that she has borrowed so heavily from Radiohead’s “Creep” on closing track “Get Free”, while it’s undoubtably a tribute to one of the few songs that can make her music seem upbeat, it jars on an album where, for the most part, her influences have been more subtly worked into the instrumentation.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-album-review-tracklist-features-the-weeknd-aap-rocky-a7852166.html

 

And she closes the album with “Get Free,” which hints at both old girl-group songs and Radiohead’s “Creep” as she resolves to dump someone: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/arts/music/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-review.html

 

As for the music, ["Get Free"] has all the signature elements of a Lana production, circa Born To Die: the surf guitars, breathy sighs and nostalgic melodies. (In this case, the verses evoke Radiohead‘s “Creep.”)

https://muumuse.com/2017/07/lana-del-rey-get-free.html/

 

In typical Del Rey fashion, there’s homage paid to other artists: alongside nods to The Beatles, finale track “Get Free” bears a not-so-subtle similarity to the chords on Radiohead’s “Creep”

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-review

 

a fool could say otherwise..40% was enough tho 

[Macintosh Manhattan 6,505]

Someone said voting season is over so maybe not. And it's really not that serious, alot of people are on Lana's side

I hope so

 

I just don't like the idea of her going back in her shell especially since she made an amazing way forward with L4L emotionally at least.

[Off To The Races 2010 demo pls 19,335]

This attention whores only want $$$, the songs are practically differents, similar parts are minimal and purely coincidental. 

[slang 1,509]

To me it seems like Radiohead is intentionally milking the legal system to make some kind of abstract point, and LDR's song (with its chord progression) was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In other words, if this isn't just a label-reflex action, and does indeed reflect some kind of personal meaning for Radiohead, its meaning *might* be "hey we got sued for no reason, when you really take the trouble to consider it, so we're just going to do the same thing to demonstrate how easy it is-- doing unto others as they did unto us. If you don't like the result of this exercise, then change the law".  So if they win (100%), they could disavow the result and cede the rights back to LDR. (I mean it could happen; we're talking about a specific hypothesis where they think their Hollies plagiarism suit was bogus and want to convince others of that. Of course, I understand that this hypothesis could be false.) More interestingly if they lose (0%), might they not re-litigate the Hollies (or the songwriters') suit? Don't know enough about law to know, but can't precedents sometimes be overruled in later litigation?

 

BTW, Air that I Breath and Creep seem like really different songs, imo, and I do not care about the chord progression. However, RH being sued by ATIB's writers was complicated by RH actually quoting an ATIB *verse melody* in the bridge of Creep (methinks this is the case), so it's not like RH can say they weren't at all "inspired" by the song. I.E. they do a postmodern reference to it. LDR says she wasn't inspired by Creep, but I think she should at least say (as it's the crux of her case?), that chords like the ones in Creep were useful to fleshing out the song, but she thought that such chords were in the public domain.

 

Finally there's the 100% thingey, and why RH demands this, and thereby seemingly demands to go to court. It can't be because the songs are 100% the same, because, LOL, they are not. It could be a punitive amount designed to punish crossing a line somebody feels shouldn't be crossed, in order to discourage others from crossing it. This is a 180 degrees counter-hypothesis to the hypothesis I gave above (oh well). However, as others have brought up, using the chord progression (uncredited) doesn't seem like something you could punish somebody too severely for, given using the same chords is something you can legally do  (or can you?). At any rate, shouldn't *the limit* on how much LDR pay up be exactly how much the songwriters of ATIB got from RH?

[TRENCH 15,359]

anyways lets propel this song to the top 10 charts bc she deserves it 

[Terrence Loves Me 71,703]

It would be funny if Lana got sued for FMWUTTT or Cola... imagine how awkward it will be for the judge when they have to listen to the tracks lmao