Slope, it could clog up our court system, this is down the block from where i am, i m glad the jurors hung their hats on. i do copyright infringement cases, they are difficult and tedious for the juries, it s a slog the entire way. sandra: sheeran s lawyers telling the jurors the chord progressions, thinking out loud, letters of alphabet of music, basic building blocks song writers must be free to use or all of us who love music already poorer for it. mr. sheeran s counting on you to be overwhelmed by his commercial success, she said, urging jurors at one point to use their common sense to decide whether the
The focus to let s get it on to let s get it over with, saying the bogus copy right claims need to stop. if the jury had decided this matter the other way, we might as well say good-bye. we need to be able to write our original music and independent creation without worrying at every step of the way that such creativity will be be wrongly called into question. it is true that the melodies in both songs do not line up, and even though the chord progressions and rhythms are similar, they do turn up in tons of other popular songs, but don t mind me, i m just thinking out loud. our coverage continues with one mr. wolf blitzer next door in a place i like to call the situation room. happening now, the u.s. attorney general is touting major criminal convictions in connection with january 6th. four members of the far right proud boys found guilty of the grave charge of seditious conspiracy. we re breaking down the
Sharing a cord sequence does not equal that. and they showed a video, four basic chord progression is in many songs and they played the entire video, but it s five minutes long so we re going to play around 20 seconds. if i could, then i would, i d go wherever you will go can you feel the love tonight and she will be loved this point that chord progressions are very common is something that forensic musicologists outside the case agree with. in my case this is without merit because ed sheeran is using a commonplace chord sequence and the rest of the songs are dissimilar. the melodies are dissimilar, the words are dissimilar and