Ed Sheeran in court again for alleged plagiarism

GoFish

The Pulp thing above is very cool. It reminds me of the Austrian electro pop song, Codo, that is claimed to be the inspirtion for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhEII8HQ-b8

Kittyfrisk

Thankfully for music generally, Sheeran's win was a good result. 
Reserving my judgement on his tunes though 

stickyfiddle

Thank fuck for that

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/04/ed-sheeran-verdict-not-liable-copyright-lawsuit-marvin-gaye

Teetonetal

Good news, I think.

roberty

Like I say, he knows what to rip off and how

A good day for music, and a bad day for music

joneve

I haven't read the thread, but he's threatened to retire if he loses so fingers crossed! 

ICBM

joneve said:

I haven't read the thread, but he's threatened to retire if he loses so fingers crossed! 

Bit late - he won .

joneve

oh FFS. haha. 

Lestratcaster

To have to take his guitar on a stand to court to show the judge the songs are different is a new one. I know he uses 4 chords and kinda recycles the progressions but he's a good artist and I can see why he sells a lot of records.

As a guitar teacher he's responsible for bring me a few new learners each year who want to play his style of music - capo'd steel string acoustic 4 open chord shape progression songs.

thing

Lestratcaster said:

To have to take his guitar on a stand to court to show the judge the songs are different is a new one. I know he uses 4 chords and kinda recycles the progressions but he's a good artist and I can see why he sells a lot of records.

As a guitar teacher he's responsible for bring me a few new learners each year who want to play his style of music - capo'd steel string acoustic 4 open chord shape progression songs.

Yeah I love the guy, got lots of work through his popularity when I was teaching. Same with Noel Gallagher.

rsvmark

I binge watched the 4 part series on Disney + last night. While heavily edited etc etc I can’t help liking the guy. His music doesn’t do much for me but, and here’s the but, it shows quite a lot about his process. Fuck em all, music is music and long May that continue. I am of the view that disgruntled folks are seriously looking to lawyers to maximise £. Sod them. Am I right in thinking that it’s Sherman 2, lawyers nil? What about other cases?

RocknRollDave

Lestratcaster said:

To have to take his guitar on a stand to court to show the judge the songs are different is a new one. I know he uses 4 chords and kinda recycles the progressions but he's a good artist and I can see why he sells a lot of records.

As a guitar teacher he's responsible for bring me a few new learners each year who want to play his style of music - capo'd steel string acoustic 4 open chord shape progression songs.

There’s a bit more to what he does than that.