Eurovision winning song, plagiarism?

The American company “Universal Music Studios” has sent a letter to the composers of the winning song Doron Medalie (40) and Stav Beger (27). They claim that the latter copied the song éven Nation Armey from 2003, by the American rock-bent “The White Stripes”, writes the Time of Israel.

All the songs competing at the Eurosong must be original. If the claim of plagiarism proved true, Israel would be written off by competition and Netta would be denied victory. As a result, Israel would not be Eurosongu's executive next year, Israeli television reported.

The lawyers of the Universal Music Studios have claimed that there is a similarity in rhythm and harmony, and that copyrights are being violated. One of the authors of the Medalia song traveled to the United States in an effort to resolve the situation.

I'm surprised we got this letter, but we're solving the problem. I believe we will successfully agree in the coming weeks so that both sides will be satisfied”, he said.

Even if the agreement is reached, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) can nevertheless say that “Toy” is not the original song, Koha Ditore writes today.

Otherwise, Israeli music critic Ben Shalev, in March of this year, wrote that music from Netta's song is very much similar to the hit adhuroniven Nation Army, and hopes her writer Jack White (42) will hear it before Eurovision and sue composers.