ED SHEERAN - MARVIN GAYE ?

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« on: June 29, 2018, 01:57:51 AM »
this seems ridiculous to me
more like an opportunity for the wiseguys

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/624405244/ed-sheeran-sued-for-100-million-over-supposed-song-similarity
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2018, 08:44:08 AM »
Bloody hell nooms, I'd just read the same think about copied it and about to post it here and you'd beaten me.
Just listened to them both, top tunes different top line melodies and standard 4 chords are shared but it really is a load of old baloney. The only rip is lawyerly..
 
Interesting that Fender cant sue all the Stratocaster copies by way of IPR  comparison..

sad really
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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2018, 10:12:52 AM »
I think its ridiculous to say the two are the same, if you look at the lyrics and melody, which is what the copyright applies to.

Thomas Friedman wrote, in his book the World is Flat, something along the lines that 1968 was the year that the number of Lawyers exceeded the number of Engineers in the USA, and since then, the USA's position in engineering has decreased globally.

So is 2018 going to be the year that Copyright Lawyers outnumber musicians and songwriters in the music industry (or do they already??) and so lead to the demise of music . . . .

Its ridiculous to say the two are the same, if you look at the lyrics and melody.

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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2018, 01:00:46 PM »
The chords aren't even the same! The second chord in Ed Sheeran is an inversion of the I chord, in Marvin Gaye it's a iii.

But, apparently, Marvin Gaye owns all teh chordz now. O_o
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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2018, 09:21:59 PM »
I cannot see the same in either song.

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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2018, 08:01:33 AM »
Tone “apparently, Marvin Gaye owns all teh chordz now” wise words as ever. And he’s dead, so it’s which ever ambulance chasing a-holes who own the  copywriting, probably done write or play anything. Madness and bring the rather wonderful writer that he was into posthumous disrepute.
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