Anonymous
05/10/2023 20:15
Subject: Re:Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FFS. NOT/GUILTY are not options in a civil trial. Be smarter.
He is GUILTY of stealing music from black artists.
No he is not.
Anonymous
05/06/2023 00:57
Subject: Re:Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
Anonymous wrote:I can think of three other songs with this issue -
Last Dance with Mary Jane and Dani California (Petty did not sue, said he assumed there was no negative intent and a lot of rock songs sound the same)
Blurred Lines and You got to Give it Up (notably also brought by the Estate of Marvin Gaye, but they won)
Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure (Bowie and Queen were credited as part of a settlement)
In each of those three you could easily hear the similarities. In this case you could not and I think it was a huge stretch. Not surprised the Estate lost.
The recent one that was most obvious to me (not a songwriter, but played piano for a dozen years and sang, recorded and arranged music for longer) was Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” / Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” That one I noticed the similarities before the hubbub began.
Anonymous
05/05/2023 16:01
Subject: Re:Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
I can think of three other songs with this issue -
Last Dance with Mary Jane and Dani California (Petty did not sue, said he assumed there was no negative intent and a lot of rock songs sound the same)
Blurred Lines and You got to Give it Up (notably also brought by the Estate of Marvin Gaye, but they won)
Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure (Bowie and Queen were credited as part of a settlement)
In each of those three you could easily hear the similarities. In this case you could not and I think it was a huge stretch. Not surprised the Estate lost.
Last Dance with Mary Jane and Dani California (Petty did not sue, said he assumed there was no negative intent and a lot of rock songs sound the same)
Blurred Lines and You got to Give it Up (notably also brought by the Estate of Marvin Gaye, but they won)
Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure (Bowie and Queen were credited as part of a settlement)
In each of those three you could easily hear the similarities. In this case you could not and I think it was a huge stretch. Not surprised the Estate lost.
Anonymous
05/05/2023 15:09
Subject: Re:Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FFS. NOT/GUILTY are not options in a civil trial. Be smarter.
He is GUILTY of stealing music from black artists.
True
I heard that the defense pointed to 80 songs with the same chord progression, and around 33 of these predated Marvin Gaye's song. When I was learning guitar, we learned 3 or 4 chords to start with, then practiced a number of different songs using just these chords.
Anonymous
05/05/2023 03:14
Subject: Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
It makes sense — as explained in the article, as legal matter, the musical notes are what is subject to copyright. You can’t copyright “style” or production & you don’t want jurors distracted by that sort of thing. The jury found that Sheeran wrote a new song, even if it was in the “style of” Marvin Gaye (which is what the mashup showed).
Anonymous
05/04/2023 17:55
Subject: Re:Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:FFS. NOT/GUILTY are not options in a civil trial. Be smarter.
He is GUILTY of stealing music from black artists.
True
Anonymous
05/04/2023 17:44
Subject: Re:Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
Anonymous wrote:FFS. NOT/GUILTY are not options in a civil trial. Be smarter.
He is GUILTY of stealing music from black artists.
Anonymous
05/04/2023 17:34
Subject: Re:Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
FFS. NOT/GUILTY are not options in a civil trial. Be smarter.
Anonymous
05/04/2023 16:13
Subject: Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That ginger always stealing music. Lock him up!
Agreed
I really hate today’s mainstream music, it’s just simply trash. Just recycled and rearranged music from earlier artists.
Anonymous
05/04/2023 16:08
Subject: Ed Sheeran Copyright Trial
Anonymous wrote:That ginger always stealing music. Lock him up!
Agreed
Anonymous