The last sentence of the song ‘La bicicleta’: Shakira does not plagiarize, Shakira bills

Resolution denied plaintiff’s request to pocket “at least seven and a half million euros tax-free”states the aforementioned decision allowing the singers and the person responsible for the musical arrangements, Andres Eduardo Castronormally billing musical super achievements. The decision also warns that the comparison made at the trial “does not allow us to verify that it reproduces the analyzed reduced fragment of ‘La Bicicleta’s song ‘Yo te quiero tanto'”.

Musician Castellanos Valdés, who conveyed his request to broadcasting companies “La bicicleta” is the best-selling song composed in -2006 and has now been viewed 1.552 million times On Youtube, it was evaluated that EMI Music company, which owns the rights to the song, provided Sony, which bought EMI Music, with the piece “I love you so much”, which he composed in 1995 and released in 1997. one of the defendants so that he can copy it.

“A Little Trailer”

However, the judges of the 28th Division of the Madrid Court supported Shakira and Vives, and in their decision, the parts of the songs compared by the Cuban musician and which, according to him, constituted plagiarism, it is limited to only one small piece of which, in relation to the letter, it is limited to three words: “I love you so much”.

Judges Ángel Galgo Peco, Gregorio Plaza González and Enrique García García, those just three words are actually a “common phrase” used in “many songs” so this single sentence “lacks originality”.

As for music, the sentence in the same sense denies the claim of the Cuban musician who was accused of contributing to an unrelated ‘copied’ piece. “The smaller the infringed piece, the greater the likelihood of similarity, but this will result in a large number of works being considered plagiarism., such that in these cases the presence of non-trivial differences is sufficient to exclude violation. Without this allusion to plagiarism, there may be notable similarities in even the smallest parts (one word),” the jurors who approved the expert reports provided by Shakira, Vives, and the record labels “absolutely, as appreciated,” confirming the expert reports they had excluded, concluded the appeal decision. , the presence of plagiarism”.

“Not Chorus”

“The piece ‘La bicicleta’ used in the comparison is very small, not the main chorus, and is only repeated six times,” the judges said. The part that was the subject of the lawsuit was the eighteen note, “a musical material whose repetitions are two measures long”. […] occupies 32.6% of the song and ‘La bicicleta’ 7.14%”.

Regarding tonality, all the experts who intervened in the trial, both those suggested by the Cuban musician and those of the defendants, admitted that the same tonality was used: C Major / A Minor. “However, the plaintiff’s experts [Liván Rafael Castellanos Valdés] they skip that this is the most common tonality”, accuses the court.

Vallenato

At this point, the sentence implies that another expert emphasized that although both works are written with the same key signature (C Major/A Minor), their structures are different and there are differences in terms of fluency. the nature and extension of musical discourse, formal design, and letter. The first decision that is categorical given that there is no “plagiarism in any way”he also thought it proved that both songs had no rhythm coincidences other than the base songs. any musical composition of ‘vallenato’‘.

At the hearing held in Madrid on March 27, 2019, Shakira and Carlos Vives said they knew of the song’s existence only when the Cuban musician filed his lawsuit. Considering the controversy, the Board of Directors agreed to freeze distribution of the rights to this musical super achievement on November 10, 2016 by the General Writers’ Society (SGAE).. There is no record of the Madrid State Court’s June 2021 decision, the meaning and authenticity of which is unknown, being appealed to the Supreme Court for Colombian singers to be free to re-billing for ‘La bicicleta’. ‘ .