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Ed Sheeran Sued Over Allegedly Copying Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"
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SonofdonCD
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Not really. Outside of both being kinda slow, and the chords sharing the same rhythm, there really isn't anything similar. Different lyrics, melodies, background harmonies, key signature and chord progression. There's more dissimilar than similar.
This John Mayer song, however, does have the same chord progression. More similar, but it doesn't sound like they're trying to ape Curtis Mayfield. Different tempo and feel, different melody and lyrical content.
Look at my first post in this thread. There are plenty of things similar, though the melody and lyrics aren't.
lightskintwin
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Man, I'm reading the comments and even they think they sound completely different when it's so blatantly obvious.
Can people not actually hear the music?
SonofdonCD
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Man, that's why I said this shouldn't be determined by the average listener. They just don't have the knowledge base in musical theory nor the trained ears to know what to listen for to hear the similarities (of lack thereof).
Wag
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Except in that case didn't they have Robin Thicke on record saying he was heavily influenced by Marvin Gaye?
Nope. Against this. There's owning a song and someone copying it, but a "style" I don't think should be protected at all.
Hell, most of the country genre would be fucking dead. A shitton of songs in that use exactly the same exact style bass line:
D5 A5 D5 A5 D5 A5 D5 A5 D5 A5 then do a climb down when the song's key shifts down and do a climb back up when the key shifts up
Ring of Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBTg7q9oNc
Sin Wagon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0B_4VZ7Zs
Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT8B13njzK0
On the Road Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN86y30Ufc
Mama Tried https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuc4nfJByc
Hell, most of the country genre would be fucking dead. A shitton of songs in that use exactly the same exact style bass line:
D5 A5 D5 A5 D5 A5 D5 A5 D5 A5 then do a climb down when the song's key shifts down and do a climb back up when the key shifts up
Ring of Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBTg7q9oNc
Sin Wagon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0B_4VZ7Zs
Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT8B13njzK0
On the Road Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN86y30Ufc
Mama Tried https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuc4nfJByc
Dynamite Shikoku
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This is getting ridiculous. No matter what you make there's a good chance it will sound similar to something from the past. How many variations of beats and progressions are there?
The blurred lines decision was fucking terrible. They didn't appeal it?
The awful chilling effect these kind of decisions can have is surely self evident. It's the in interests of public policy to make the capacity to recover extremely narrow - basically only in the case of literal sampling.
The awful chilling effect these kind of decisions can have is surely self evident. It's the in interests of public policy to make the capacity to recover extremely narrow - basically only in the case of literal sampling.
Nobody should have to clear with any estate to use components of the 12 Bar Blues for bass..
slow jam romantic music like this all evolved out of blues. They just slowed it way down and used the 10th and 11th bar as the base of the bass line.
OdysseusVA
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I don't hear it.
Case dismissed
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Mental Atrophy
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Nobody should care about this. "Let's Get It On" is over thirty years old. Copyright shouldn't last that long and anybody should be allowed to remake, reinterpret, or sample in whatever way they want without any restriction.
Marvin's money hungry estate and family.
Yeah, fuck those people who made something over 30 years ago, right? Seriously, copyright lasts long enough, 30 years is way too short for stuff to end up in public domain. Most people who made stuff 30 years ago are still alive, it would be unfair to just rob them of their royalties.
It started at 14 years with an option to renew for another 14 as long as you were still alive, in the US.
Mathematically, any revenue or benefit from a work after 30 years is already miniscule. You make more money off suing others. The work becomes worth more as a court document than inherently by itself.
By the way, a point a LOT of people miss is that if copyright expires, you can STILL make a profit off your work. You just no longer have the exclusive right to it anymore. Disney could still sell Snow White and The Seven Dwarves, and even sign an agreement with Target/Walmart/Best Buy/Amazon to where they agree to sell only official Disney copies, but they could'nt stop someone from editing, remixing, and basing new works off Snow White - much like Disney remixed, edited, and used Snow White herself from the public domain.
Yeah, Titanic is the highest grossing movie of all time. So that means The Godfather is shit compared to it, amirite?
No, but it means that a lot of people would prefer Titanic.
Blurred Lines not a stretch. It was a copy.
What a ridiculous conclusion to draw.
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