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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...
Both Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" and Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" gain in sales and streams this week due to a copyright lawsuit.
Ed Sheeran is facing a copyright lawsuit with an upcoming trial over claims he copied Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On" for his own "Thinking Out Loud.
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...
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...
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" ...
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 an...
Sheeran did himself no favors in late 2014, when he was captured on stage at a concert toggling between the two songs to amuse the crowd.After he was hit with the current lawsuit in 2018, Sheeran’s lawyers argued that the elements he allegedly took from the Gaye’s song – a chord ...
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...