Is this Ripping Off?

So I was driving to Indianapolis, Ind. for a conference and I heard an interesting story on the radio. Apparently, there are some people out there who are claiming that "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum is a rip-off of "Eye in the Sky" by the Alan Parsons Project.

Now I am familiar with both songs, but I have a hard time believing that there it is a rip-off. There is almost a 30-year span of time between the two songs being released ("Eye in the Sky" - 1982; "Need You Now" - 2010). The chord progressions are the same, but you can't copyright progression. There are only a finite amount of progressions that work well in pop music...or any music for that matter. If that is the only method of questioning the legitimacy of a song, then there has been A LOT of ripping off. Just think of how much royalty money the creator of V-I progression would have received over the centuries.

So if there were a lawsuit and you were on the jury, what would you say? Here is a video comparing the songs. Two things of note:

• "Need You Now" had a change in tempo and key to match "Eye in the Sky."
• This video was not made by me. I'm not taking credit for it in any way, shape or form.