Saying something is on Spotify or YouTube means nothing, there’s hours and hours of music, it doesn’t mean anyone would have heard it,” Bosher said. “That number was relatively low when you think about how much content is available online.

The judge had determined that Perry was likely to have heard the complainants’ track Joyful Noise, given it had an average 633,333 listens across six YouTube videos. It raised questions about how courts establish whether writers have heard a track. Firstly, whether they are likely to have heard the song before writing their piece, and secondly whether they have substantially lifted a section of it.īosher said a 2019 ruling in the US against Katy Perry, which was overturned this month on the grounds the melody in question was not “unique or rare”, had been a landmark case. I don’t think copyright is doing its job properly if songwriters are afraid, that’s stifling creativity.”ĭetermining whether an artist has copied another songwriter is based on two tests. She added: If Sheeran loses, I imagine we will see even more cases.

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