I assume that he thinks there’s a difference between “being fired at the behest of hooting twitter lunatics” and “retiring from a position by choice.”  Dunno, that seems like a straightforward difference to me.

Hot damn she was good in 12 Monkeys.

‘the Studio has only successfully launched one new character: Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi’

Breaking news! Actor says he might continue to do role that made him a boatload of cash. 

Actors like work, part 23

And that’s what rubs me the wrong way. If they’re already getting paid royalties for the cover, then I’d assume they know the context of the cover (they've given permission to it) and so suing for plagiarism is just mean spirited. 

Musicians don’t need permission to play a cover song during a live concert, but if you release that concert as an album, only then would you need permission and pay royalties. I’m a big fan of Phish, and they usually play one or two covers every show, and they’ve never been sued as far as I know. If anything, bands…

If he loses this, then Paul McCartney has a slam dunk case against the remaining members of TLC for their song “Waterfalls”

He looks like Boris Johnson smoked weed once and it turned him ginger. 

Someone on the Root posted the sheet music side by side. No parts look identical. If I were on the jury and saw that, it’s over.  

It’s a good joke anyway. It might even qualify as an original joke!

I really hope Sheeran wins this one. Not because I really give a shit about Ed Sheeran, but I hate the impact that the wretched “Blurred Lines” case has had on music copyright since the early 2010s, and would love for some pushback on it in court.

Except they aren’t involved. You should actually read past the headline.

> Marvin Gaye’s family

I don’t think it is Gaye’s family? I’m basing this on something I overheard on a TV in the deli, but I believe it’s the other guy who had a writing credit on the song’s estate doing the suing.

Not Marvin’s family this time. This was written by outside songwriters (which I was very surprised to find out). Having said that, the Gaye family’s suit regarding Blurred Lines was the bullshit that got this ball rolling (there’s a mixed metaphor for ya’!), and I don’t like Robin Thicke even a little bit (although I…

Let’s Get It On is faster. The melody and lyrics are different. You can’t copyright a chord progression. It will be a disaster if he loses. And I doubt he will.

I know there are going to be a lot of “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!” comments, but Ed Sheeran is right. This lawsuit is bogus & Marvin Gaye’s family is ruining creativity in music with this bullshit.

If every chord progression can only be used once per musical style, there isn’t going to be much left for future generations to work with and we’ve probably entered the clownpenis.fart stage of music (“Our lawyers recommend throwing a Bb Dim7 chord in the middle there, you’ll barely notice it.”)

[insert joke about how Sheeran sucks and we’d be better off if he quit music, even though I’ve never listened to any of his music and don’t actually have a negative opinion of him, but it’s fun to jump on bandwagons and pretend like it makes me cool to hate things, and surely no one else here is doing this, right?]