Originally Posted by Sunset Poet
Originally Posted by John Lawrence Schick
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"Ed Sheeran won a copyright infringement case after being accused of ripping off the Marvin Gaye song "Let's Get It On" for his song "Thinking Out Loud." he was just the latest in a long line of musicians accused of copying other songs" - Gary

And Ed Sheeran won his case. He brought his guitar to court and showed the juries how common that C C/E F G chord progression is.

John smile

I get the Blurred Lines case. Thicke made the case for the plaintiff by explicitly stating that his song was a derivation. And it sounds like it.

I don't understand why the Thinking Out Loud Case even made it to court. Sounds nothing like Let's Get It On...to me. My wife said that there was one instance when ES played them back to back at a concert and that was all that it took. Grubbing people and willing attorneys I guess.

The brighter side for me...watched a TV segment on this case last Sunday Morning. ES wrote and performed a bunch of good songs that I heard and liked, but I did not know he wrote and performed them. He has a new fan and I have some great songs to put on my playlist.

Rick Beato did a side by side comparison and there were definitely matching parts but ironically, Let's Get It On had similarly borrowed from another song before that as well, so it is good the lawsuit failed. Frankly, I think our copyright system is a disaster as it doesn't work in modern times.

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