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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Think of music notes like Legos. There’s only 12 different Lego pieces you can use at any given moment. You and everyone else will only ever be able to work with those same 12 Legos.
Using more than one Lego piece together is a chord.
Now, between individual Legos and combinations of various Legos (notes and chords) and rhythm, you can still get a lot of variation in how they string together (progression) to end up with different builds/structures (songs).
The plaintiffs in this case would have had more of a leg to stand on if Ed had used the *exact* same sequence of Legos. He did not. He used a vaguely similar, but still singularly different sequence of Legos. Welcome to 90% of music. When you only have so many building blocks to work with you’re bound to find a lot of similar music. That doesn’t mean anyone was ripped off or stolen from.
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