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Are there times, do you think, when lawyers themselves are often pushing these cases? yeah, i think the lawyer is looking to make a name for himself. he filed the case, as i understand it, in louisiana, which is the fifth circuit, which is not where you file copyright cases — that would be done in either new york or la, where the judges have seen the cases before, where lawyers have litigated these cases before — but nobody has heard of this guy or his lawyer, except people in louisiana, so he wants home turf and he wants to litigate there, where he has a ghost of a chance of people having...

Had sort of claims come through on songs and we go, well, here's the footage and you watch and you'll see that there's nothing there. but, johnny, where does this end? because if i'm bringing a case, do i subpoena your streaming records, everything you've listened to for the last five yea rs. i mean, how does that work? that would be, i would imagine, impossible, you know, because whatever limitation you have, if somebody wants to get at you, then they'll say the gap in that limitation is the problem. so, if you don't get up in the morning and live like you're on the truman show, then there ar...

# holding me closer...#. and there was a claim made on that. and we were basically advised to settle that, because i was on tour, lots of other things going on and it was basically, you haven't got time to do this and also there's a culture around this that you probably would lose. so we settled that. and i think from there, much like with the blurred lines case, the floodgates opened and they go, well, if you did that then, and i think that has added into this, basically. do you regret settling there or do you think that was then and this is now and...? personally, yes, personally, yes. and b...

Yeah, you described it as like rocket science, only more complicated. yeah, well... that's going to follow you around forever. yeah, sometimes you say something and then, you know, time machine and all. # i'm in love with your body #. i'm in love with your body...#. but the making of that song, tell me if i'm wrong, but it was like an hour and a half, is that right? it was a relatively short period of one day. yeah. and i think a lot of what the case boiled down to with this is not people not believing that i could write a song in an hour and a half. but what i wanted to say is, like, i work e...

# i'm in love with the shape of you #. we push and pull like a magnet do...#. is this, in a sense, about the scale of what you do, the degree of success you've had? because one hears the phrase, no hit, no writ, in the record business. i mean, is it the case that people go after obscure songs? have you ever had something that's cropped up in that sort of regard? is it purely about saying, ok, this one is a monster hit, shape of you, and therefore it's much more likely to come under dispute? yeah, i would say that. and i would say that from very, very early on in my career, me and johnny had a ...