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...
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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 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...
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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...
A jury in Manhattan gave Ed Sheeran a victory Thursday in his copyright lawsuit trial, deciding that the pop star did not steal part of Marvin Gaye’s song. He released his new album “Subtract” hours after the verdict.May 5, 2023Read More ...
Ed Sheeran, facing a copyright lawsuit for his song "Thinking Out Loud," convinced a court to keep the audio recording of a Marvin Gaye song he allegedly infringed out of the trial, a win due to Led Zeppelin's recent Ninth Circuit victory. Sound elements from Gaye's 1973 song, "Let's...
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