Couldn't see a thread on this crucial result for musicians everywhere
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61006984Ed Sheeran has won his case, basically it turns out you can't copyright a progression up the pentatonic scale.
Pop music only has so many chords and notes to work with.
With 60,000 songs uploaded to streaming services a day, 2.2 million a year (a staggering figure) popular music is now so commonplace as to have rendered itself basically a commodity. Ironically musicians, by being so prolific, have reduced the perceived value of their art once again.
The few artists at the top making major bank accidentally making something that sounds a bit like one of the 59,999 songs uploaded each day only the artists and their mums give a shit about could have become one of the few ways to make money on Spotify, hoping the Sheeran's of this world would settle, and pay their mortgages.
I see this as a pretty good result, or the only people making money going forwards would be people who program the software that looks for similar patterns in other songs.
What say ye all?
You are the dreamer, and the dream...
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It's such a generic pattern that you would be able to find a hundred songs the same.
If this isn't stamped out every generic pop song is going to end up being sued into oblivion.
The Dua Lipa one is more interesting as it appears they have both ripped off the same parent song
Indeed. World weep for me, I was led into a highly stressful situation by my own cynical and unprincipled greed.
I suspect the judge probably was shown a picture of the bin at his management office full of demos from one day's post...
The last bit of which is a bit spurious and fun, but it’s been a long week already and I’m ready for my bed
I think it was the "lyrics" combined with the progression that make it a bit closer than "just the same melody" or progression etc
I get what Ed means about it only being what it was because of who Sheeran is, but in the other guys place I think I might feel a little hard done by. He had a song he was proud of and believed the main theme was used without credit. I guess he was poorly advised in going after it though, and I doubt Sheeran deliberately stole the idea anyhow - and if it was subconscious he wouldn't know it would he?
Ok.. Maybe I would. Yeah, I would take five. But not one or two. Aw fuck it, I'd probably do an Ed Sheeran tribute night for fifty quid, but that's just me. Cheap tart. Hmm.. This post didn't end up the way I thought it would..
If he's in trouble it should be for that, I mean think about it for just a second.