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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have family in the music industry and they don't like this guy. While I don't think the melodies are similar enough in this case, I want everyone to know that stealing music is a HUGE part of "work" in that industry. The music industry is built on greed, not creativity or joy. There's soooo much copycat behavior, I'm not surprised someone got prickly enough to sue Ed Sheeran. [/quote]

And once you've listened to music from medieval times to today, you understand that there's nothing new under the sun, and someone can pick a few measures from your work and complain that it's similar to something else that someone else published. Because it will be similar! No theft involved!

Nobody complained about this in previous centuries, because it was part of existing in a 12 note universe (only so many ways you can arrange it melodiously!), but now that pop music is tied to millions of dollars, people realize they can trawl through the work of artists and identify all sorts of similarities with other works.

So it's not that Ed Sheeran is a thief. Ed Sheeran may not be liked due to personality differences, financial success, celebrity status etc, and that's why he's targeted. Sort of like the Gwyneth Paltrow trial.

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