re: Ed Sheeran wins copyright infringement lawsuit involving 'Thinking Out Loud'

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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.

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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.