jfv wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 1:09 pm Also, I was bored and found this Wikipedia page that lists songs accused of being plagiarized, if anyone is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... m_disputes

Well whaddaya know.. a 3rd fuckin' Sheeran song on that list. Thank god this hack will be right back at it soon.

penningtron wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 1:26 pm

jfv wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 1:09 pm Also, I was bored and found this Wikipedia page that lists songs accused of being plagiarized, if anyone is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... m_disputes

Well whaddaya know.. a 3rd fuckin' Sheeran song on that list. Thank god this hack will be right back at it soon.

Yep, three songs, four lawsuits. He's two for four in fighting them off; not bad odds considering the other results on the list.

It personally pains me to be on Ed Sheeran's side here, especially with the seductive promise of him quitting songwriting, but I'm typically not a fan of music plagiarism lawsuits and I really don't think songwriters deserve the legal world breathing down their necks every time their 4 chord song has a few notes from some other tune.

jfv wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 1:09 pm

Anonymous37 wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 12:49 pm Well, Sheeran won, it seems.

That's good.

Also, I was bored and found this Wikipedia page that lists songs accused of being plagiarized, if anyone is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... m_disputes

My favorite bit of trivia from this list is that “Creep” has been on both sides of a dispute.

Also, there are essentially as many legal disputes from 2022 as there were for the entire 1970s.

Wood Goblin wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 1:52 pm My favorite bit of trivia from this list is that “Creep” has been on both sides of a dispute.

Radiohead: steals "Creep"
Radiohead: disowns "Creep"
Also Radiohead: sues someone for stealing "Creep"

Priceless.

twelvepoint wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 1:52 pm It personally pains me to be on Ed Sheeran's side here, especially with the seductive promise of him quitting songwriting, but I'm typically not a fan of music plagiarism lawsuits and I really don't think songwriters deserve the legal world breathing down their necks every time their 4 chord song has a few notes from some other tune.

Nailed it.

Pop music is fairly simple much of the time. The chords and vocal melody are easy to steal on accident. But that's not even the point. So many other factors fuel it: the singer's timbre, the arrangement, the production and most importantly/weirdly what the pop star represents in some cultural or character sense. The unlikely convergence is a perfect storm of money making.

I cant stand Ed Sheeran's music. Revolting.

But I will be damned if I ever take the side of the copyright trolls.

who cares, it's all folk music

i love being ripped off, it's cute

"What I want I take, what I don't I break."