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Ed Sheeran Wins Copyright Case over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’
- shagie 3y agoGift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/arts/music/ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-copyright-trial-verdict.html?unlocked_article_code=fw3o20mOPUXLDozxMap5yQui3rq75ZZiS_lVlO3W6T8FpE1vFkA9mL-vFggpXT1xzwS1jkN2cbJFeVprgPLpZZZIyWUytCVI3rKCrAjqp3ntab0yP_Cwe3sBTrZwE7e_XUQ0S02JyZet2zH_Z9MAGpngVBEVZNcEjnVcCV7AQifHovMFxP7ZXNTWJPPfTO70x2IZCV7vAp_Huwg6nZ9WwIwapyQm0x675VKOw0u-rEYJLzKMGEkluHPYRYACw00j8Wc57G7cXrkRthleNX558W5lqZ9EowlBbO1I3oTf1LI4VcorU-fcdPjMWiMBJhlQRyUbiphYfhfbWExJl8DsYWBkT5ru4-jEHLYiXeHuzFwPXqcXffpYTZWn8Q&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/arts/music/ed-sheeran-mar... My favorite part from it: > “We have spent the last eight years talking about two songs with dramatically different lyrics, melodies and four chords which are also different and used by songwriters every day, all over the world,” Mr. Sheeran continued. “These chords are common building blocks which were used to create music long before ‘Let’s Get It On’ was written and will be used to make music long after we are all gone.” From a different article about the trial: https://www.newser.com/story/334575/ed-sheeran-sings-plays-guitar-in-court.html https://www.newser.com/story/334575/ed-sheeran-sings-plays-g... > Before Sheeran’s Thursday testimony, his defense played a video of Australian comedy band Axis of Awesome performing a medley of dozens of songs with the same four chords. The video: https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I
- x0x0 3y agoThat youtube video from Axis of Comedy is amazing; they go through 38 songs from bands as diverse as Journey, Elton John, U2, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Green Day, Aqua, and Beyonce.
- Maursault 3y ago> That youtube video from Axis of Comedy is amazing; they go through 38 songs from bands as diverse as Journey, Elton John, U2, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Green Day, Aqua, and Beyonce. What's amazing is how they somehow failed to identify the original piece and its composer, i.e. Canon in D Major, P 37, by Johann Pachelbel.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck
- wodenokoto 3y agoI thought you’d link to pachelbel’s rant, which is a funny standup music rant about how the canon is everywhere https://youtu.be/uxC1fPE1QEE https://youtu.be/uxC1fPE1QEE
- cafard 3y agoPeter Schickele once invented the classical music station WTWP--Wall-to-Wall Pachelbel.
- shagie 3y agoHeh... PDQ Bach album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTWP_Classical_Talkity-Talk_Radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTWP_Classical_Talkity-Talk_Ra... > Towards the middle of the repeat of the Canon, Blondie suffers a nervous breakdown, being the result of an overdose of Pachebel. It's available via Streaming: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BLXWCHQS https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0BLXWCHQS Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/p-d-q-bach-classical-wtwp-talkity-talk-radio/1653876253 https://music.apple.com/us/album/p-d-q-bach-classical-wtwp-t... Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/5gLmlAeNfrfzJJffMbdM3V?si=aiKEvpwcTFCmFK_A16GQ5A https://open.spotify.com/album/5gLmlAeNfrfzJJffMbdM3V?si=aiK... (And a YouTube channel with it: https://youtu.be/x6qbIGJwuqw https://youtu.be/x6qbIGJwuqw )
- tshaddox 3y agoCanon in D is a rather different chord progression that is twice as long as the I–V–vi–IV and is quite divergent after the first 3 chords which the progressions have in common.
- shagie 3y agoDigging a bit, there a number of different recordings of them playing in different situations and the song does involve. The start and the end are the same, but the middle changes. https://youtu.be/_rvmf6YlyNE https://youtu.be/_rvmf6YlyNE and https://youtu.be/Z0IUdjMcEmo https://youtu.be/Z0IUdjMcEmo being two examples.
- Georgelemental 3y ago> At the trial’s start, attorney Ben Crump A familiar name… And not in a good way. It's amazing how much damage one lone grifter can do to society
- smnrchrds 3y agoNot familiar with the attorney, and the Wikipedia page does not imply he is a grifter. Care to elaborate?
- Georgelemental 3y agoHe's been involved in many extremely high-profile cases with a racial element to them—police brutality, civil rights law, and so forth. These cases often involve very high dollar amounts. In the course of representing plaintiffs, he's repeatedly lied and distorted the facts to impute racial animus where there was none, and those lies have been repeated by the media, reaching millions. Most famously, he was instrumental in spreading the "hands up, don't shoot" lie about the shooting of Michael Brown. In my opinion, a non-negligible portion of the responsibility for worsening race relations in the US falls on him.
- vkou 3y agoWould you describe someone spreading a pro-police coverup and lie as responsible for worsening race relations? Or just someone spreading an anti-police one? Does one side in this kind of affair get held to a higher standard than the other?
- Georgelemental 3y agoIf anything, people like Crump make genuine police reform harder. To solve the real injustices (and there are many), you first have to sort them out from the made-up nonsense. This isn't a football game, it's not a question of "pro-police" versus "anti-police"—it's truth versus fiction.
- korginator 3y agoMusicians have been taking inspiration from, borrowing from, and reinterpreting other artists throughout history. This is what makes for the rich tapestry of musical genres & styles, and the evolution of music itself. So may great hits are reinterpretations of older less-known numbers, often as tributes to the musicians who wrote or played the originals. What if the estates of Bobby Russell won against Reba McEntire, or the estates of Sonny Boy Williamson or Willie Dixon won against Led Zeppelin, heck, pick pretty much any old blues musician and you can claim they've been ripped off by newer bands. Freddie King's estate would be rolling in dough and their heirs would be set forever. The problem lies with copyright laws, the way they are today. There will always be greedy money-grubbing lawyers and people wanting to make easy money by exploiting this system. This goes beyond copyright laws. Patent laws anyone? What if Volvo had decided to charge an arm and a leg for their 3-point seatbelt patent instead of letting competitors use the idea without charge? Nothing wrong about that, they may have made a ton of money (justifiably so), but they looked at the broader picture concerning public safety. Would Chrysler have done that had they invented the 3-point seatbelt? Probably not. I'm just trying to illustrate how two parties could make completely opposite decisions both compliant with copyright or patent law.
- carlmr 3y agoRegarding the 3-point seatbelt. I would like 4-point as standard, it's much better during sideways impacts and distributes the pressure much more evenly.
- Doxin 3y agoI think one of the main advantages of a 3 point seat belt is that it allows people to tilt towards the middle of the car if the roof crushes some. With 4 or more point seat belts you'll also then want a roll cage.
- throwawaysalome 3y ago“If we had been able to just talk,” she [plaintiff] said, “we wouldn’t be here today.” Disingenuous statement of the year.
- Trouble_007 3y agoShades of; 'George Harrison Plagiarism, Copyright' 'Classic Copyright Cases – George Harrison' : https://www.briffa.com/blog/classic-copyright-cases-george-harrison/ https://www.briffa.com/blog/classic-copyright-cases-george-h... George Harrison - This Song : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Song George Harrison : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison