Explore Ed Sheeran's music on Billboard. Get the latest news, biography, and updates on the artist.
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Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has emerged victorious after a years-long legal battle over one of his most popular songs. Sheeran's trial came to a close as jurors concluded he did not steal key elements of Marvin Gaye's 1973 classic, "Let's Get It On," to create his Grammy-winning 2014...
Ed Sheeran was found not liable in the copyright lawsuit trial that accused his song “Thinking Out Loud” of infringing on Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On.” After three hours of deliberations that followed a two-week trial in New York from April to May, the jury announced their verd...
Ed Sheeran releases statement following Shape Of You copyright lawsuit after judge rules he did not rip off Sami Chokri Criticising "damaging" copyright claims, Sheeran said: "There's only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bo...
lawsuit brought in 2017 by the heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote “Let’s Get It On” (1973) withMarvin Gaye. Townsend’s heirsallegedthat Sheeran had copied elements of the older song for use in “Thinking Out Loud,” which Sheeran denied. During the 2023 trial, he and his defense...
Ed Sheeran v. Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard ("Photograph") In 2016, Ed Sheeran was hit with a $20 million lawsuit over similarities between his 2014xsingle, "Photograph," and a 2009 song called "Amazing," written by songwriters Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard. The pair claimed th...
Ed Sheeran has won a copyright lawsuit over his song "Shape of You." Artist Sami Chokri, known as Sami Switch, claimed Sheeran's 2017 hit plagiarized his 2015 song "Oh Why."After an 11-day trial, judge ruled Sheeran had "neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied" Chokri's song and...
Jurors said they found Sheeran had independently created "Thinking Out Loud," which trumped all other decisions they had to make. The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's co-writer on the track "Let's Get It On," filed a lawsuit in 2017 claiming Sheeran's 2014 hit had "striking similarities" ...
Sheeran has continuously denied lifting from the Gaye song "Let's Get It On" co-writer Townsend's heirs first filed a lawsuit against Sheeran for "Thinking Out Loud"back in 2016, and then news broke in June of 2018 that Structured Asset Sales LLC, which owns one-third of Townsend's est...