A court in Madrid admitted to study the demand that brought the Cuban composer Livan Castellanos similarities between the song and its subject Colombians 'I love you so much'.
The resounding success it enjoyed in Spain and in Latin America the single 'Bicycle', Shakira and Carlos Vives, who certainly was crowned as the song par excellence last summer, could I be now clouded by the legal scandal looming after a Madrid court has finally admitted admissible a plagiarism lawsuit against those responsible for the publication of the issue, which are none other than the famous artists, the composer Andrés Eduardo Castro, Sony Music and nine other producers.
As published by the newspaper El Mundo, was last February 3 when the court decided that would be responsible for dealing with the accusations against them all by the producer and composer Cuban Livan Castellanos, as well as its editor Maryla Dianik Romeu.
The testimony offered by the applicants indicates that the similarities between 'Bicycle' and its theme 'I love you so much' (1997) are notorious in "a phrase and the choir", besides both songs have the "same pace and the same melodic line ", a statement that would have validated a" professor of composition ".
The court ruling comes just a few months after it jumped the very news that Colombian interpreters had been sued for copying supposedly some key elements of that song, a circumstance that led to the SGAE of Spain (SGAE ) to temporarily block the copyright of 'Bicycle'.
However, after its leaders flatly denied that the famous single use would plagiarism, both sides attended a conciliation last November during which he did not reach any agreement, which seemed to reinforce the idea that allegations made against Shakira and Carlos Vives were not sufficiently substantiated.
So much so, that since 'Bicycle' and interpreters have received numerous awards for his triumphant collaboration, among which the Latin Grammy for Song of the Year, and their enthusiastic thanks not concern it appeared some by the legal future about the topic. However, now it has to be the judge to determine what role will end up playing the single Latin pop history.
