Found this quote from here. But then found no reference to this sighted article
They accused him of partaking “consciously or subconsciously in the habit of appropriating the compositional skill and labour of other songwriters”.
I think consciously acquiring the skills and labour of others is a thing called learning. Does that mean legally we are infringing others copyright whenever we learn?
I understand that we learn all the time and quite often we probably do it subconsciously.
If that is how copyright laws work, then how can anyone control ther subconscious?
My understanding is that your subconscious controls your conscious but your conscious self cannot control your subconscious.
Therfore you can be sued for something you cant control?
The ,Guardian article quoted Ian Mill QC, for Sheeran and his two co-writers, as saying:
“How can more than one person subconsciously copy something? That is completely inconceivable,” Mill told the court.
It would appear that that Ian Mill has never seen a person unconsciously yawn in the presence of another person yawning.
Further in the first article it stated:
“Today, in court, Sheeran was accused of being a “magpie” who “borrows” ideas from other artists.”
I find it interesting the use the word ,“borrow”. That implies that the ideas are going to be given back at some stage. I dont know how you give back an idea.
I would like to no of any artist that has created any idea, completely in isolation from all other artists, since the invention of the concept of copyright?
Basically just goes to show that copyright laws are wrong and should be abolished.
Life and everything else, is a derived copy.
This BBC article shows that logic has prevailed and in another case a decision was overturned because “the original verdict could have suffocated musical creativity.”
The reality is that the original purpose of copyright, to provide an income for creators, has been distorted, in that creators are the least likely to get an income, as opposed to controlling corporations, and it is impossible to no if your original thoughts have been thought and written before be someone else.
Intellectual property is an oxymoron