Hush now, plagiarist claimers

In more YouTube take-down madness, EMI has been flexing its muscles forcing the site to remove videos comparing Joe Satriani's If I Could Fly with Coldplay's Viva La Vida. Because, you know, the person who put the Coldplay music online hadn't asked, and that makes it stealing - and it's really, really bad to steal intellectual property.

Unless, of course, you haven't really stolen it and it's just a coincidence. Perhaps the people who made the video could try and claim a coincidence defence. It's no more unlikely than Chris Martin using it to explain why his song sounds so much like Satriani's.

Let's just stress, though, that EMI are only worried about the copyright and not at all panicky at the financial implications if Satriani wins his plagiarism case.