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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A chord progression is the order in which groups of musical notes (chords) are played. There are only 12 notes in the entirety of music and so you can only put them together in so many ways. Only some of these orders sound good.
There’s a saying that goes, “there’s no such thing as new music” because we’ve already made music with every combination available.
With such a small number of chord progressions that sound good it’s inevitable that you’ll have multiple popular songs that sound the same. That’s the argument they used to win the case
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