Not being a songwriter of any importance, but being a musician who plays songs in ASCAP dues paying venues, I see this lawsuit copyright development as theft. The fact that in the Katy Perry case it is a so-called Christian musician makes it even more reprehensible.

Since I was a child, I have made my living thanks to songwriters. In school it was Dvorak, Beethoven, and their peers, after that it was the Brill Building and other pop composers, then when I went to the retirement crowd it was Gershwin, Porter, Ellington, and the like, and although I'm still in the retirement end of the business, it has morphed back to Brill Building and the baby boomer pop composers.

Songwriters should be compensated for their work, if not, we won't have professional songwriters and all the wonderful songs I've played by people like Otis Blackwell, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and so many others just wouldn't be around to delight me and my audiences.

For one songwriter to steal from another with a frivolous lawsuit is just the lowest of the low.

At least that's the way I see it.

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