4th May 2023
Another flawed musical copyright case.
The news from the Manhattan court is that Ed Sheeran has won the latest case.
These cases are not about piracy and bootleg copies being made for sale.
These case are also not even about samples being lifted.
They are about mere chord progressions.
As Sheeran’s lawyer avers: “the letters of the alphabet of music”.
These are the cases that bring discredit on media and copyright law – and also perhaps show a misunderstanding of how music is composed and how music develops.
We should just wish that the very notion of bringing such flawed cases could themselves be subjected to the law of intellectual property.
And then potential plaintiffs could just be sent a “cease and desist” letter – and so be stopped immediately in their, ahem, tracks.
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