Scooch - DaRiva

Members from Dubrovnik's DaRiva band were shocked to recently hear the many similarities between one of their songs and “Flying the Flag”, a song by the band Scooch, who were representing the United Kingdom on this year's Eurovision.

It was obvious that the chorus in the “Dugo u noć” song, which was recorded about four years ago and was in numerous television and radio programs as well as the internet. This song was also regularly played on HRT Radio Dubrovnik, which meant that TV and audio recordings of the song were available to anyone.

The authors of the song, Nano Vlašić and Giorgio Baranac, are getting help from HDS-ZAMP to protect their song copyright. They are also receiving enormous amount of support from numerous friends and colleagues in the music industry from all over Croatia.

This unexpected and bizarre situation shows that in spite of the fact that we respect the rights of other countries, that some of the big “players” will take parts of certain songs as they see fit.

This matter will be resolved in court in the near future.

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17.05.2007. 13:56