Sheeran, 32, has spent days testifying with guitar in hand, playing demos for the court to prove the 1-3-4-5 chord progression that’s primarily in question is a basic building block of pop music that can’t be owned.
Both sides have hired expert witnesses to explain the technical details to jurors, but, of course, their conclusions differ significantly.There have been a handful of landmark music copyright cases in recent years, notably in 2016 when Gaye’s family—who is not part of the New York lawsuit against Sheeran—successfully sued the artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over similarities between the song “Blurred Lines” and Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.
“One reason that this Ed Sheeran case may be really important to the industry is that it’s a data point that would show well is the pendulum actually back on the other side, or are we just going back and forth?” said Joseph Fishman, a law professor specialized in intellectual property at Vanderbilt University.
In his memoir Harrison later wrote that he suffered a “paranoia about songwriting that had started to build up in me.”
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