Phantom Of The Opera - Plagiarism claim from Pink Floyd's "Echoes"

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd had asserted that Andrew Lloyd Webber had plagiarized the intro section from the Pink Floyd song "Echoes", which largely resembles it, although he decided against filing a lawsuit.

"Yeah, the beginning of that bloody Phantom song is from Echoes. *DAAAA-da-da-da-da-da* [sic]. I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature - it's 12/8 - and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything. Bastard. It probably is actionable. It really is! But I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber."^[3]

The notes in question are about 4 minutes into this video:

Banned Xbox 360 Advert-"Standoff"

From Mr Ford's Blog:



In 2005, Microsoft made a "Jump In" ad for their Xbox 360 console that never aired. The ad, deemed too controversial, showed commuters on a subway platform playing "shoot ‘em up" with their fingers.

The following is from Ad Punch November 25th 2005

The xbox 360 ad which shows people are shooting at each other while running around is perceived as too much violent for lil kids. Robbie Bach of Microsoft told Businessweek that in this tense violent milieu it better to withdraw the advert from television even though it looks like an award winning piece.
The ad as conveyed by insiders exclusively meant for broader audience and not for hard core gamers.
The adspot was shot on a subway platform, where commuters like kids run around in a fake backyard battle.

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