Pop songs ripping off classical music.

A lot of classical music is in public domain, so some artists have used the melody and just added words.
Cheeky buggers then claim they wrote it.
There's loads, a few in this video, but there are more, as seen in the comments.


I thought that was the point of that song. It doesn't even try to hide it, unlike all of the other songs that copy Canon in D. But of course it's not just pop songs that copy from classical. The Star Wars themes are basically ripped off of The Planets by Gustav Holst. Of course the trick is actually to copy from stuff that people don't know as well.

Perhaps a more interesting question is could someone record what is basically a rip off of that Maroon 5 song and then get out of paying because they stole it in the first place?
 

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