Gareth Malone believes that pop stars such as Ed Sheeran have no concerns about copyright infringements because the profits involved are so big that you end up “halving a very large pile”. The choirmaster said that the benefits of using chords that are “familiar and grab people instantly” outweighed the perils of facing legal action from the original creators and that the amounts of money involved in having a commercially successful song more than compensated for the risks. “The worst-case scenario is that you have to halve [the profits],” he told The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. “But you’re halving a very large pie. “So I think for Ed Sheeran, who famously has been in trouble quite a few times, what does…

Source: The Times October 10, 2019 23:03 UTC