Photograph Comparison Essay

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A complaint for copyright infringement regarding two songs “Amazing” by Harrington and Leonard and “Photograph” by Ed Sheeran and John McDaid has been made along with a demand for a jury trial on June 8, 2016. The defendants’, Edward Christopher Sheeran, John McDaid, Ed Sheeran Limited and labels such as Sony have made deliberate infringement of “Amazing”. They have harmed the plaintiffs, HaloSongs, Martin Harrington, and Thomas Leonard as Harrington and Leonard were not properly credited for their contributions to “Photograph.” The chorus of “Photograph” has a number of simlarites as “Amazing”. This essay analyses both the songs choruses and will prove that the original has been copied to a reasonable degree. It will also provide evidence that “Amazing” is in fact an original song and that Ed Sheeran had access to the song at the time of the composition. The songs have been transcribed into C major for comparison. “Amazing” (AG) is an indie pop song in the key of C major. The duration of the song is 3:59 minutes and is played at 86 BPM using acoustic and electric guitar, strings, drums, bass and piano. “Photograph” (PH) is in the key of E major and is an acoustic pop …show more content…

Early January 2011, Harrington and Leonard sent the chorus only version of AG to Mr. Howes on request. They notified Mr. Howes (co-writer) that they retained all rights to their original version of AG. Later Mr. Stannard (co-writer) contacted them to send the multitracks of AG to Howes so Cardle could create a similar version of AG with the same name, “Amazing 2”. After hearing “Amazing 2” Harrington and Leonard recognized that the entire tracks chords, melody, lyrics, structure and instrumentation was the same as their original version. “Amazing 2” was credited as co-written by Messrs, Harrington, Leonard, Howes, Stannard, and Cardle. The song was released as the third single on Cardle’s debut studio album,

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