1ºYou can’t copyright chord progressions.
If the case for this goes finds him guilty then the U of Michigan deserves a pay day for both of them copying Let’s Go Blue-yea same chord progression.
ABC song composer and Twinkle Twinkle people owe Mozart’s estate a ton of money. Even the melody is the same.
The Catholic Church owes a lot of drinking Song writers money for their process of Contrafacta in the 16th century to motivate parishioners to sing. They used pub songs and melody and just replaced the lyrics with religious text.
Courts will be busier because record sales aren’t pulling in the $ they once did and music won’t just die and go away. How far does this all go?
2ºIt don’t sound like Let’s Get It On, maybe the beat and the chord progressions but Ed had chords that are different, for something to sound alike the notes and everything about the song has to be the same. Take Ice Ice Baby and Under Pressure for example, Vanilla Ice added an extra note and he didn’t have to pay all the money he was supposed to but then he said that buying the song would be cheaper than having to pay all the time, so he bought the publishing rights to Under Pressure for $4 million. If Ed Sheeran is found guilty of using the same everything then he could probably buy the publishing rights and then wouldn’t have to pay every time he did the song