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"Ed Sheeran has made it onto Techdirt’s radar many, many times. What started as
his reasonable views on how “piracy” actually kickstarted his career has
unfortunately turned into several posts on how he’s been targeted himself or
sticking up for others in copyright disputes. While Sheeran has settled such
disputes out of court before, he recently successfully defended himself in
court and then put out a fantastic statement on the problem copyright law is
creating in hampering creativity. At the end of that statement, he said:
Me, Johnny, and Steve, are very grateful for all the support sent to us by
fellow songwriters over the last few weeks. Hopefully, we can all get back
to writing songs, rather than having to prove that we can write them. Thank
you.
I kept that penultimate sentence bolded from the last post for a reason:
Sheeran is apparently not willing to take the chance that the world will be
more sane. Instead, in a move that feels more like PTSD from these lawsuits
than anything reasonable, Sheeran now records all of his writing sessions on
video in order to prove in future disputes how he came up with his songs and
lyrics."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
