Sephirot Theme ( Phase 2 ) sound familiar?

[CosmicKirby]

In the US, you can get copyright issues for things that sound "substantially similar" though, even one cord progression if your label spends enough money and their lawyers are good enough.

Fixed it for you. Had to account for the American "Justice" system.

[Kerwin]

Fixed it for you. Had to account for the American "Justice" system.

At least we are not copyrighting a "reaction" to it am I right? *wink wink*

But in all seriousness. Let's just see how the cookie crumbles before we start bad mouthing SE or Powerman 5000. Perhaps there will be a proper homage from Soken to them or perhaps Powerman 5000 will just leave it as is and things will carry on normally.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

They definitely have a similar rhythm, but the lyrics are nothing alike. Frankly, that's enough that if Powerman5000 did attempt anything, they would lose.

[Niqote]

It's an interesting situation.

I've been reading Powerman5000s initial comment and SE seems to be getting an overwhelming amount of support from the comments (one comment saying 'I can find 3 Rammenstein songs that are similar to Worlds Collide, why aren't you complaining about that?).

It seems they are receiving many criticisms.

Personally...
I feel that it is not a rip off because if you actually listen to the song without the battle sounds from your party its rather clear how different they are.
In fact I feel that if even one thing was changed (Either the pitch of the singer or the initial guitar rift) then there would have been no comparison made whatsoever. To me there needs to be many similarities that need to be changed before it is no longer similar for it to be an issue.

It is less similar than the Great King's 'Halloween' sound which of course is a remix of the FFVI Moogle theme and came before 'This is Halloween'.

I feel it's a little bit of drama that will quickly pass.
And I am really looking forward to trying out Extreme mode.

[Spirlia]

I'm going to be honest guys, the song isn't very "original" in the first place. I mean, in a nutshell, it's a repeated guitar track with deep, male, kinda gravelly singing. There are a lot more songs with those traits than this one.