Chris Martin, and his band Coldplay are being accused of plagiarism for the third time. This claim comes from the 1970s artist Cat Stevens, who changed his name to Yusuf Islam when he became a Muslim. Yusuf claims:

"There’s been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it’s mine! It’s the ’Foreigner Suite.’"

Last June, the New York act Creaky Boards alleged the song was close to their tune "The Songs I Didn’t Write."

A rep for Coldplay said about the new claim:

"We have not commented previously about the claims, and there will be no comment about this one."

Chris Martin recently told Rolling Stone:

"We’re definitely good, but I don’t think you can say we’re that original. I regard us as being incredibly good plagiarists."

Coldplay would probably be filing suit against anyone using their music, so if they borrowed from another artist, they should pay up.

Gary Barlow, lead singer of Take That, performed the band’s single Back For Good with Chris Martin at the Coldplay War Child benefit in London on Wednesday after the Brit Awards.

It would have been amazing to have been there.

Here’s the new Coldplay video for their single Life In Technicolor ii.

This video is totally cool.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Coldplay responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by guitarist Joe Satriani last week in federal court in Los Angeles. That lawsuit says the Grammy-nominated song contains "substantial, original portions" of his 2004 song, "If I Could Fly."

"With the greatest possible respect to Joe Satriani, we have now unfortunately found it necessary to respond publicly to his allegations," read the statement. "If there are any similarities between our two pieces of music, they are entirely coincidental, and just as surprising to us as to him. Joe Satriani is a great musician, but he did not write the song ’Viva La Vida.’ We respectfully ask him to accept our assurances of this and wish him well with all future endeavours."

In response to Coldplay’s statement, Satriani’s lawyer, Howard E. King, said Coldplay’s public reaction was dramatically different from how the guitarist’s claims were treated before the lawsuit was filed.

"We attempted to have a dialogue on this before we went public," King said. "We felt almost forced to file suit."

"As far as the ’coincidence,’ ultimately that’s for a jury to decide," he added.

King said it’s common for musicians to be influenced by other works and incorporate it into their own, sometimes a little too closely. But he said that the reaction is usually different when the similarities are pointed out.

"It doesn’t mean you don’t owe something to the original composer," he said.

Coldplay is one of the world’s top-selling pop acts, and their latest CD, "Viva La Vida," has sold nearly 2 million copies in the United States alone. It was nominated last week for seven Grammys, including album of the year and record of the year for the title track.

The bottom line is that Joe wants to get paid. There have been many case like this, for instance where rap songs used the exact melody from another song, and the jury did not pay the original artist.

Joe Satriani sued Coldplay claiming copyright infringement. Joe says Viva la Vida uses an exact copy of his melody from his song If I Could Fly. Check out the video above and decide for yourself.