BBC 英语学习 News Review 艾德·希兰赢得版权案

Ed Shearron has won a copyright case over his hit Shape of You.

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BBC Learning English. I'm Tom. Joining me this morning is Roy.

Good morning. Roy. Hello Tom and hello everybody.

If you would like to test yourself on the vocabulary around this story, all you need to do is head to our website, bbc learning english dot com, to take a quiz.

But now, let's hear more about this story from Ed sheron himself.

Whilst we're obviously happy with the result, I feel like claims like this a way too common now, and have become a culture where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court, even if there's no base for the claim.

It's really damaging to the songwriting industry.

There's only so many nights, some very few chords used in pop music.

Coincidence is bound to happen If 60000 songs are being released every day on Spotify, as 22 million songs a year, and there's only twelve nights there are available.

So Ed Shearron has won a high court copyright battle over his 2017 hit Shape of You.

He was accused of plagiarizing the 2015 song, oh, why?

By Sammy Shockery. A judge ruled that this was not the case.

And we've got three words and expressions to talk about this new story.

What are they today? Wrote, we have baseless rip off And in wake off.

Baseless rip off in wake of ok Roy, let's have your 1st headline, please.

Okay, so our 1st headline is from the BBC, and it reads ed Shiron wins shape of you copyright case, and hits out at baseless claims, baseless without evidence or facts, right?

Tell us about baseless. Okay, so baseless is an adjective, and it is spelled B-A-S-E-L-E, double s, and it basically means that something has no evidence or facts to support it.

Now, you use that verb support.

Now, if we support something, we make it stronger.

Is there a connection between the idea of a base and support?

Yeah. Okay. So, e.g. the base of something is the bottom of something.

And we often build things on bases, e.g.

a structure, uh, like a house, and the base of it makes that structure more stable.

Now, in terms of baseless as the adjective here, what we're talking about is a claim, somebody saying that somebody did something.

If you say that a claim is baseless, you're basically that there is no support.

There is no evidence. There is no facts to support that claim.

OK, so there's no base It base less.

There's nothing to support it. Makes sense?

Is it the same as saying that something is untrue?

Well, it's very similar. It's a similar idea to basically saying, you you can't prove it.

There's no evidence to that. Okay, now, do we hear this in everyday conversation?

Could I say, roy, you're being making up baseless accusations about me?

Well, you could, but it's, it's quite a formal expression, so we don't really hear it in sort of everyday conversations.

You'd probably just say, well, that's not right, or, that's not true.

Okay, so baseless is an adjective.

What are the nouns it goes with?

What collocations are there? So you can have a baseless rumor, so you have rumors that have no sort of evidence to support it, uh, baseless accusations, and of course, baseless claims, as it appears in the headline.

Wonderful. Thank you. Right. Let's take a look at our summary slide.

OK, we're talking about things which are baseless, which may or may not be true.

How good at you at spotting a lie?

Can you spot a lie? That's a title of our six minute episode, which we're going to present to you.

And how can the audience get it?

Roy Okay, so all you need to do is click the link in the description below.

Just click that link. Great. Roy 2nd headline, please.

Okay, so our 2nd headline comes from Sky News, and it reads ed Sharon released a statement following Shape of You copyright lawsuit after judge rules he did not rip off semishockery, rip off copy or plagiarize something.

Roy. Tell us about rip off.

OK So, rip off is a frasal verb.

It is R-I-P 2nd word O, double F, and it is separable.

So you can rip something off or rip off something.

And it basically means to copy someone's work.

OK,

we copy someone's work, is, this is an informal way to say that we copy someone's work.

But is it neutral? Positive? Negative.

What's going on? Well, um, to rip off is is is negative?

Ah. And basically it means to steal somebody's work, if you like.

So, um, let me give you an example.

We're at school, and you write this really good essay, and my essay, yeah, it's rubbish.

So I decided to take your essay and I copy it.

And you can say that I ripped off your essay or ripped your essay off.

Now, as you say, it's quite informal, so more formerly you would say, plagiarize.

That's the verb to plagiarize something.

OK? So we can rip off or plagiarize homework, work a song.

I thought the phrase was related to money as well.

Yeah, there there is a, sort of, there is a use of rip off when it raised the money, and it's got this idea of taking too much money.

Again, that idea of stealing. Now, in terms of money, it means that I charge you, maybe I charge you a huge amount for something that would normally cost much less, and it's an unfair amount.

So, e.g., I sold you a watch recently, did you?

Did you like that watch? To be honest, roy, I did not like that watch.

It didn't work. It had no batteries.

It was broken. It was very expensive.

I'm very unhappy with the watch.

Well, I thought it was a great role, a great watch, but I charged you a lot of money, so you could say that I ripped you off.

You ripped me off when you sold me the watch.

Is there a way I can describe the watch?

Yes, you can use a noun.

You can say the watch is a rip off.

And we hiphinate that now. And so it's rip hyphen off.

So Roy sold me a watch.

He ripped me off. It was bad quality to watch itself was a rip off.

That is our example. Of course, roy, you would never rip me off.

Correct? No, of course, that didn't happen.

It's just a great example. We're too good of friends.

And if if I ever charged you too much money for some wouldn't sell you anything anyway, just give you as a present.

But if ever I charged somebody too much, I would always make sure to give them their money back.

Let's have a look at our summary slide for ripoff, please.

We're talking about money. Did you know that money spent on time can make you happy?

At least, that's what we're discussing in this episode of News Review.

Roy How can they get it?

All you need to do is click the link in the description below.

Click that link. Okay, perfect. Roy, let's have a look at our next headline for today, please.

Okay, so our next headline come from The Independent, and it reads Ed Shiron says he now regrets settling 14 million lb.

Photograph lawsuit in wakeoff shape of view trial win in wake of after or because of something.

Roy Tell us about this expression.

Okay, so in wake of now, it's commonly seen more naturally, as in the wake of So it's I-N, 2nd word T-H-E, 3rd word W-A-K-E, 4th word O-F, and that that is more normally used.

However, as it's a headline, they have cut the the and what it basically means is after or due to something, so as a consequence of something, OK, so the word I'm familiar with here is wake.

I wake up in the morning now I'm awake.

Is this related? Does this link?

Let's talk about that idea of waking up.

Now. You wake up after sleeping to start sort of a new day, and it comes after the sleeping.

Now, in terms of the expression, it basically means that it's coming after something.

And it relates to, and it relates strongly to the idea of consequences.

So it's when we talk of in the wake of something, we sort of saying, as a result of something, OK, good description.

Can we highlight it with an example?

I think we normally use in wake of, in the wake of to talk about quite serious things, right?

Yeah, we do. So, e.g. the financial crisis.

In the wake of the financial crisis, a lot of companies, they closed, they went bankrupt.

So saying, after the financial crisis, because of that, a lot of companies closed, another strong example, right?

So basically, in the wake of we don't really use it in everyday normal conversation.

No, not really. We. We reserve it from all kind of serious matters.

So in normal everyday conversation, you probably just say something like, as a result of or because of wonderful.

So in the wake of our discussion about the expression, let's get that summary slide up.

OK, roy, can you recap today s vocabulary Forest, please?

I sure can. We had a baseless without evidence or facts.

We had rip off, copy or plagiarize something, and we had, in the wake of after or because of something.

Don't forget. If you want to test yourself on today's vocabulary, we have a quiz at the website bbc learning english dot com.

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That's it from us today. Thanks for joining us.

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