Recently, music composer for Apple, Pete Cannon shared Apple's latest advertisement on social media, which shows Apple's flagship phone, iPhone X’s face-recognition system. He took to Twitter and wrote “The new @Apple iPhoneX advert is out AND I PRODUCED THE MUSIC FOR IT ;) It's for worldwide use across Cinema and TV. It don't get much bigger laaaa! Have a watch if you've got a moment....” All was fine except Pete forgot to mention that he actually took the tune from the Hindi track ‘Meri Nazar Hai Tujh Pe’ from ‘The Burning Train’, a multi-starrer featuring Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Vinod Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Parveen Babi, Hema Malini, Neetu Singh and Danny Denzongpa.
The fact that Pete took the tune of his latest advert from renowned music composer RD Burman's track and tried to pass it off as his own left people fuming. Twitteratis then took to their social media handles to slam Pete and accused him of stealing the tune. Here's what they tweeted:
"This is a direct rip-off (no not even a cover version) from Indian composer RD Burman's song. Please give him due credit @petecannonbeats @Apple "
"isn't this a copy ? What did you compose. @petecannonbeats ? @Apple do you pay people to rip off other's work and pass as their own?"
"This is NOT your Music. This is NOT your Composition. You did not do anything TO DESERVE it. Respect the original creator #RDBurman. Music from 80's movie - The Burning Train. #Disgraceful #Plaigarism"
"Its ok to get inspiration and remix a song prelude from 1980. Its even more gracious to acknowledge the original creator R D Burman aka #Pancham"
"Checkout the original music by Indian composer #RDBurman done in 1980 (Oh! you must be knowing anyway) - There is NO Innovation in your re-sampling, just a ReUse without credits:)"
However, Pete soon took to his Twitter handle once again and clarified that the track was indeed one of RD Burman's. Here's what he tweeted:
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