Ed Sheeran Says He'll Stop Making Music If He Loses Copyright Lawsuit Over Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” The controversial legal case, which is now in trial after years of making headlines, has previously seen Ed Sheeran playing guitar and singing in court...
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A judge ruled in April that Sheeran and his collaborators did not "deliberately nor subconsciously" copy another song. Ed SheeranHannah McKay - WPA Pool/GI Read More About Copyright International shape of you More From Pro Business News
Sheeran has argued in his written evidence that his song's "Oh I" phrase uses "a basic minor pentatonic pattern" which is "entirely commonplace". However in court, Mr Siddell, who was instructed by Chokri and O'Donoghue's lawyers...
Criticising "damaging" copyright claims, Sheeran said: "There's only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released every day on Spotify. That's 22 million song...
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Sheeran sat with his legal team throughout the trial, defending himself against the lawsuit by the heirs of songwriter Ed Townsend, who created the 1973 soul classic with Gaye. They said "Thinking Out Loud" had so many similarities to "Let’s Get It On" that it violated the song’s copy...
Sheeran sat with his legal team throughout the trial, defending himself against the lawsuit by the heirs of songwriter Ed Townsend, who created the 1973 soul classic with Gaye. They said "Thinking Out Loud" had so many similarities to "Let’s Get It On" that it violated the song’s copy...
On May 4, jurors sided with Sheeran, finding that he and his co-writer had independently created “Thinking Out Loud” without copying it from “Let’s Get It On” and clearing him of millions in potential legal damages. A verdict against the singer would have reverberated through...
The ruling came nearly four years after Chokri and O’Donoghue first accused Sheeran and cowriters Steven McCutcheon and Johnny McDaid of copying the earlier song. The trio denied the claims and launchedlegalproceedings in May 2018, asking the UK’s High Court to declare they had not infringe...