To me they seem to have more of a similar feel than being a note for note copy, different melody and chords. That Ed Sheerhan song “Thinking out loud” though, my God, why isn’t that dork getting his arse sued off? That’s almost an identical copy of Marvin Gayes song “What’s going on”. First time I heard it I was wondering if this kid was simply rapping lyrics over a recording of “What’s going on” I couldn’t believe it was actually being considered an original song of his. What is it anyway with plagiarism and Marvin Gaye anyway? The sad part about all this is Gayes daughter Nona is a complete jerk, never worked a single day in her life because of daddy and compared Pharrel to a slave master “holding her in chains”. Holding her in chains? Because he wrote a song that sounds slightly like her daddys? Amazing how nobody says anything when a rich black woman says crap like that. She makes another $7 million for doing absolutely nothing, and she is held in bondage by chains. Look at this crap...
“Gaye’s daughter, Nona Gaye, wept as the verdict was read and later told reporters, “Right now, I feel free. Free from ... Pharrell Williams’ and Robin Thicke’s chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.”
Oh boo hoo hoo hoo!! Can you imagine if someone like Lisa Marie Presley said something like that?
““Gaye’s daughter, Nona Gaye, wept as the verdict was read and later told reporters, “Right now, I feel free. Free from ... Pharrell Williams’ and Robin Thicke’s chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.””
Williams and Thicke sued the Gayes to order them to stop saying it was a copy of Gaye’s song, this ruling is the resolution of the counter-claim, from what I understand. It was a year and a half long case. And I think that it will be reduced on appeal as it looks like the jury just made their decision to punish Williams and Thicke for the original lawsuit.
While I disagree with most of the copyright system as it applies to creative works, and severely disagree that intellectual work should be held for so long (this should have been public domain decades ago), I can’t fault the jury’s choice.
Nona is a jerk.
When I first heard the Ed Sheeran song, all I could think of was “Crazy Love” by Van Morrison.
Same groove,
same arrangement
same chords,
almost the same melody.
different lyrics but very similar sentiment.