Shakira and Carlos Vives beat plagiarism case
18:28 May/22/2019
Livan Rafael Castellanos had accused Shakira and Vives of plagiarizing his 1997 song Yo te quiero tanto in their award-winning hit La Bicicleta.
I have nothing against Shakira, Vives or anybody else, Livam told Associated Press. Its the law that needs to decide whether changing a songs key is enough to make it different.
Livam, who works in Madrid as a composer and producer, said his three-year-old daughter identified her dads melody in La Bicicleta when the family heard the hit on a radio during a beach holiday last summer.
A legal representative for Sony ATV Music Publishing in Spain, which represents Shakira and Castro, said the company couldnt comment as it had not received notice of the lawsuit.
SGAE, the main society managing the rights of authors and publishers in Spain, said it had suspended the rights of the song following the associations usual procedure when two of its members lodge a complaint.
This is not the first time Shakira has faced allegations of plagiarism.
In 2012, the Dominican singer and composer Ramón Arias Vásquez known as Arias accused the Colombian superstar of copying one of his compositions in her 2010 hit Loca.
Although a US judge initially ruled that Shakiras song was indirectly copied from Arias song, he later dismissed the copyright infringement case on the grounds that Arias had lied to the court and that the cassette tape on which he had based his claims was a fake.
In La Bicicleta, Vives and Shakira sing the Spanish generic phrase, Que te sueño y te quiero tanto (I dream of you and I love you so much). In Yo Te Quiero Tanto, Livam sings an equally generic phrase, Yo te quiero, yo te quiero tanto (I love you, I love you a lot).
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"yo te quiero, yo te quiero tanto" (I love you, I love you so much)
Livan Rafael Castellanos had accused Shakira and Vives of plagiarizing his 1997 song Yo te quiero tanto in their award-winning hit La Bicicleta.
I have nothing against Shakira, Vives or anybody else, Livam told Associated Press. Its the law that needs to decide whether changing a songs key is enough to make it different.
Livam, who works in Madrid as a composer and producer, said his three-year-old daughter identified her dads melody in La Bicicleta when the family heard the hit on a radio during a beach holiday last summer.
A legal representative for Sony ATV Music Publishing in Spain, which represents Shakira and Castro, said the company couldnt comment as it had not received notice of the lawsuit.
SGAE, the main society managing the rights of authors and publishers in Spain, said it had suspended the rights of the song following the associations usual procedure when two of its members lodge a complaint.
This is not the first time Shakira has faced allegations of plagiarism.
In 2012, the Dominican singer and composer Ramón Arias Vásquez known as Arias accused the Colombian superstar of copying one of his compositions in her 2010 hit Loca.
Although a US judge initially ruled that Shakiras song was indirectly copied from Arias song, he later dismissed the copyright infringement case on the grounds that Arias had lied to the court and that the cassette tape on which he had based his claims was a fake.
Its like theyre touching one of my children theyre stealing from me.
In La Bicicleta, Vives and Shakira sing the Spanish generic phrase, Que te sueño y te quiero tanto (I dream of you and I love you so much). In Yo Te Quiero Tanto, Livam sings an equally generic phrase, Yo te quiero, yo te quiero tanto (I love you, I love you a lot).
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