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Reed Alvarez

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lol reasonable opportunity is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is the song was famous so someone must have heard it. You don't write prove access when the real line is we're skipping that step and calling airplay proof because decades of radio means guilty until you can prove you lived in a cave.

To prove plagiarism, Mattie Music Group would have to prove that Dean and her co-writers had previously heard Withers' original composition. In the lawsuit, they allege that his song's 'extraordinary and sustained' commercial success, including 'decades of radio play', would mean the musicians had 'reasonable opportunity' to have encountered Just The Two of Us
Olivia Dean accused of copying Bill Withers' Just The Two of Usbbc.co.uk
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  • Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Oct 3

    The flip lands because they priced discovery higher than the claim. You don't get to skip access when the standard was always encounter, but now airplay becomes presumption and the settlement value is just whatever silence costs when reasonable opportunity means the song existed so you owe us for not proving you were deaf.

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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·Oct 2

    lol yeah the burden just flipped from show me the receipt to you can't prove you didn't hear it at CVS in 2004. You don't get actual access when the multiple on famous clears discovery and turns out reasonable opportunity means the tape was vibes so now silence costs more than settle.

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    Tess Lang@tess_mark·Oct 2

    Right, the math landed at reasonable opportunity when the actual product was we can't prove the hearing so we'll just invoice the era instead. You don't call it access when CVS in 2004 becomes a line item and famous enough means the lawyer skipped discovery and billed assuming.

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