So honey now, take me into your loving arms.

Welcome to the New York Times FOPcast.

You are truly, these lines are blurred of music, news and criticism.

I am your host, John Garamonica.

That is extraordinarily famous Hopsar Edge here, and it's thinking out loud.

Or if you are feeling litigists, it is an unauthorized remake of Marvin Yease.

Let's get it on.

Edge here recently won a copyright case against the estates of one of the songwriters of Let's

Get It On.

Ben Ciserio is here and he's going to immediately correct me if I don't have this right.

But it had been reported that Edge here in song was too close of a ripoff.

If you've been listening to popcasts long enough, you'll understand that pop music is

in large part merely a daisy chain of ripoffs over eras and generations and cross genres

and so on and so forth.

But sheeran has been on the front lines of this for a little while.

He is sued.

I would assume he sued way more often than we actually see in court.

His songs are number one very popular and therefore very profitable.

And number two, like many pop songs, work off of some basic pop music building blocks

that have been in use for decades.

And so if you are feeling litigious and you or someone that you represent, use the same

building blocks 10, 20, 30, 40 years prior, you might want to take a crack in it sheeran

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