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re: Ed Sheeran wins copyright infringement lawsuit involving 'Thinking Out Loud'
Posted on 5/4/23 at 1:28 pm to Ingeniero
Posted on 5/4/23 at 1:28 pm to Ingeniero
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Working somewhere that plays music over the speakers isn't the own you think it is
It's one salesman with a blue tooth speaker and shitty taste in music. Ear buds fixes the problem but it's the same shitty playlist every day. I'm sure you'd love it, though.
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Posted on 5/4/23 at 1:40 pm to SnoopALoop
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It's those baws from the music board. If it ain't Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Willie Nelson, The Who, Van Halen, Merle Haggard or something in this realm, prepare to be shite on.
When I was younger I used to be a gatekeeper but as I have gotten older my appreciation of various genres of music has expanded, basically because I allowed myself to like music outside the Jimi/Stones/The Who/Zepplin era.
To the OP: the Blurred Lines suit emboldened writers. That suit was out of bounds. With the backdrop of that case, it is hard to argue Townsend was nuts suing. Thinking Out Loud is damn similar in a lot of respects to Let's Get It On it is actually pretty amazing when you hear them back to back. That being said I think they are different enough.
Music for the most part, at least what you hear on the "radio" is derivative. If you break it down far enough it is like compounds in the physical world there are just so many elements in the periodic table and just so many ways they can combine. Yes, there are billions of combinations to make riffs but there are a limited number that are pleasing to the human ear. That being said there must be a line where borrowing becomes theft, Blurred Lines definitely was not it, and Thinking Out Loud probably shouldn't be either.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 1:43 pm to GumboPot
Good now he needs to sue Thomas Rhett for doing the same to his song.
Die a happy man is the same song as Thinking out loud.
Die a happy man is the same song as Thinking out loud.
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 5/4/23 at 1:46 pm to JetsetNuggs
quote:yeah ok
The two songs sound nothing alike
Posted on 5/4/23 at 1:56 pm to GumboPot
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Overtime as music progresses there are going to be inevitable inadvertent similarities between songs given the fact that the combinations of notes is a finite number, albeit a massive number (I believe that number is close to 12^12...which is a really big number).
The total number of note variables is big but the ones that actually sound pleasing to our ear is much smaller.
Think of it like food - there is an infinite amount of matter that I can shove in my mouth and swallow. But if you start eating grass, sand, tree bark, or anything else you see then you're going to get sick and die. But if you stumble upon a chicken or portabella mushroom, you're golden.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 1:58 pm to GumboPot
don't love his music, but i think suing off a few matching cords is ridiculous.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 1:58 pm to GumboPot
I’m not sure which gay I’m siding with on this one
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:01 pm to el Gaucho
Well done gaucho
Well done
Well done
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:03 pm to STigers
All these serial downvoters.
Look you guys, I’m tired of hearing Bad Habits on the radio too. But relax a little
Look you guys, I’m tired of hearing Bad Habits on the radio too. But relax a little
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:04 pm to GumboPot
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did not engage in willful copyright infringement following a trial that saw Sheeran playing guitar and singing in court.
All they wanted was a free concert, unplugged.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:07 pm to SnoopALoop
Don’t forget Jason Isbell…..they love that shite too.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:08 pm to JetsetNuggs
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The two songs sound nothing alike
Nothing against Sheeran, but yes they do.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:09 pm to Palomitz
Surprised he won with the way Blurred Lines one went. This type of nonsense needs to be thrown out. cord progression and basic beat being similar with the rest of the song being different shouldn't be able to be sued over.
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:09 pm to GumboPot
This was 100% a money grab and the daughter thought that Ed would settle. She “hoped” it didnt go to trial.
This is from a different article:
Kathryn Townsend Griffin, his daughter, testified during the trial that she thought Sheeran was “a great artist with a great future.”
She said she had hoped the lawsuit would not result in a trial, “but I have to protect my father’s legacy.”
This is from a different article:
Kathryn Townsend Griffin, his daughter, testified during the trial that she thought Sheeran was “a great artist with a great future.”
She said she had hoped the lawsuit would not result in a trial, “but I have to protect my father’s legacy.”
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:11 pm to LegendInMyMind
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DAC didn't write it. Hell, DAC or Chris Stapleton aren't even the most famous country singers to record it.
Facts
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:11 pm to BigBinBR
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This was 100% a money grab and the daughter thought that Ed would settle. She “hoped” it didnt go to trial.
This is from a different article:
Kathryn Townsend Griffin, his daughter, testified during the trial that she thought Sheeran was “a great artist with a great future.”
She said she had hoped the lawsuit would not result in a trial, “but I have to protect my father’s legacy.”
They 100% don't care if it goes to trial, the Blurred Lines lawsuit they won gave them free reign to go after anything remotely close to his music.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:14 pm to BhamBlazeDog
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Stapleton's Tennessee Whiskey
Not a Stapleton original song. Tennessee whiskey has been around since the 80’s by David Allan Coe and has been remade by several people including George Jones. Stapleton is just who made it famous so any claim that it sounds like Misty Blue is dumb.
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:17 pm to rlebl39
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Not a Stapleton original song. Tennessee whiskey has been around since the 80’s by David Allan Coe
DAC didn't write it, which is important to note because DAC has been content to let people believe he actually wrote it.
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has been remade by several people including George Jones
Jones's version sold more and charted higher than DAC's, and was a huge success.
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Stapleton is just who made it famous so any claim that it sounds like Misty Blue is dumb.
Stapleton's version took its melody directly, almost note-for-note, from "I'd Rather go Blind" by Etta James.
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:26 pm to The Boat
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The Marvin Gaye family group is a bunch of simps. They sue people all the time for copyright infringement.
Except they didn't. At least read the article before jumping to conclusions.
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by the family of the song's late co-writer, Ed Townsend.
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If you murdered the artist you should lose your right to sue others for money over what's not yours.
The person that shot him (his dad) died 25 years ago.
This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 5/4/23 at 2:45 pm to Dam Guide
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They 100% don't care if it goes to trial, the Blurred Lines lawsuit they won gave them free reign to go after anything remotely close to his music.
Yep. They assumed that would be enough to scare him into settling.
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