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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 song called photograph. # so you can keep me # in the pocket of your ripped jeans # holding me closer...#. and there was a claim made on that....

There's nothing there. but, johnny, where does this end? because if i'm bringing a case, do i like subpoena your streaming records, everything you've listened to for the last five years. 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 are going to be gaps in what you have. i think what we have to remember here is that we have a process and wh...

In the system at the moment. if i can go to a musicologist and get a report and then take that report to a society, and then they freeze someone's income based on that, that's a problem. it's a problem because it creates — not in this case, specifically, just in the wider scheme of things — it creates a culture where it can be used as a threat. and i think that is where we have to be having conversations with societies, with managers, with artists, songwriters, and say, this isn't ok for anybody. # white lips # pale face breathing in snowflakes...#. do you essentially hope now to sort of e...

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 space. do you regret settling there or do you think that was then and this is now and...? personally, yes, personally, yes. and but not from a financial point of view, it's from a... like, i didn't play photograph for ages after that. ijust stopped playing it, i felt weird about it. it kind of ...

A chance to be heard, because we believe that that's necessary moving forward. everybody deserves to have a voice. everybody deserves to be heard in this. i think we were really lucky to have the judge we had in this case, who was exceptionally musical, probably the most musical person in the room. i mean, in terms of his technicality and his ability to navigate the nuance of this case. there were questions that he asked of the musicologists that were beyond my understanding, and yet he had a real grasp on it. and the fairness that it felt he brought into the room settled us through the proces...