Ed Sheeran successfully defended his copyright court case, what is chord progression and why do so many songs use it?

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I watched a video where he demonstrated that many songs use the same tune / Chord progression (?). What is chord progression and why was the one in question essentially uncopyrightable?

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It’s not that the *one* in question was uncopyrightable, it’s that he was trying to demonstrate how none should be because even with the one in question has been used by many others since that “original”, as well as decades and centuries before it. There’s only so many notes, which means a finite number of chords. And with those chords, they can only be put into a finite number of combinations.

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