James Arthur Sued by The Script Over "Say You Won’t Let Go"

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James Arthur's 'Say You Won't Let Go' Sued for Copyright Infringement by The Script

www.billboard.com/articles/business/8457167/james-arthurs-say-you-wont-let-go-copyright-script-lawsuit

In a nutshell, the Script has hired the same lawyer from the Blurred Lines case and claims that they turned down working with James in 2014 only for him to go and copy “the essence” of The Man Who Cannot Be Moved in order to create Say You Won’t Let Go.

[Harx]

I mean SYWLG is a The Script rip off in general, they could be suing him over so many different songs in their discography

[Az Paynter]

Another lawsuit over the "essense" of a song over actual infringing samples/interpolations? Go f**k yourself, Gaye family. :sip2:

[Au$tin]

"the essence"? God, fuck off. You don't copyright essence.

There's about a million other songs that came before "Say You Won't Let Go" and "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" that sound exactly like those songs.

[Glove Slap]

Mar 22, 2018 13:57:55 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

Nona Gaye deserves to be placed in a special circle of hell where headphones playing Crazy Frog on endless loop are sewn onto her ears and her nipples are repeatedly ripped off.

[Naos]

Why do all these suits happen years later?

Oh well. Nonetheless, pretty nothing is "original" at this point. Unless the composition is copied note for note or lyrics are copied word for word without giving credit, I don't see much ground to sue.

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"Essence" mah ass, go back to irrelevancy The Script if your gonna come forth with this type of bs.

[Linnethia Monique]

May 22, 2018 17:02:34 GMT -5 Naos said:

Why do all these suits happen years later?

Oh well. Nonetheless, pretty nothing is "original" at this point. Unless the composition is copied note for note or lyrics are copied word for word without giving credit, I don't see much ground to sue.

It's no longer about that unfortunately. Jidenna credited Iggy Azalea and her writers/producers from "Fancy" on "Classic Man" to avoid a lawsuit because they had a similar sound. Ed Sheeran is going through it now with the Gaye family over "Thinking Out Loud", which I do believe has lifted elements from "Let's Get It On", but that's a story for another day. This is all stemming from the "Blurred Lines" case where there were no note similarities or even melody lifted but they lost because it contained the "essence" of the song. An unprecedented ruling that opened up pandora's box for so many people. Sam Smith had to credit Tom Petty and others on "Stay With Me" because of the same thing after being sued.

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At this point sampling or having a song with the '''''''''''essence''''''''''' of another song is just stealing it. Shocked Alice Deejay still haven't nuked David Guetta with legal fees over 'Play Hard'

[House Lannister]

May 22, 2018 3:36:31 GMT -5 Az Paynter said:

Another lawsuit over the "essense" of a song over actual infringing samples/interpolations? Go f**k yourself, Gaye family.

So legacy matters now, Gaye family?  I guess they couldn't say the same right around 1984...

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It has basically the same verse, so The Script has the point - the essence is that James Arthur managed to do cheesy song even cheesier - so the essence is the cheese:) Another reason is that The Script is not so hot these days - which means they have to find other sources of income rather than new music - I guess they found it here!

[Chelsea Press 2]

May 22, 2018 19:27:08 GMT -5 @chroniclea said:

At this point sampling or having a song with the '''''''''''essence''''''''''' of another song is just stealing it. Shocked Alice Deejay still haven't nuked David Guetta with legal fees over 'Play Hard'

David Guetta did get sample clearance for that song and the producers behind Alice Deejay, Sebastiaan Molijn and Eelke Kalberg also have writing credits (they were credited as Pronti & Kalmani during the Alice Deejay days).