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 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...
The lawsuit was brought by the family ofLet’s Get It On‘s late co-writer, Ed Townsend, claiming that Sheeran’s song copied the rhythm, chord progression and other elements of Gaye’s 1973 track. The prosecution also displayed a video of Sheeran playing a mash-up ofThinking Out Loudand...
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Ed Sheeran did not copy part of a Marvin Gaye melody in his hit song "Thinking Out Loud," a New York jury found Thursday.
Ed Sheeranwas found not liable inthe copyright lawsuit trialthat accused his song “Thinking Out Loud” of infringing onMarvin 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 verdict in...
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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.
Suffolk-born star Ed Sheeran was among those who gave evidence in court in Manhattan over a lawsuit alleging his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud violated the copyright for Marvin Gaye's classic 1973 song Let's Get It On.
Ed Sheeran has been sued multiple times for copyright infringement. In 2016, two songwriters, Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard, accused Sheeran of copying parts of one of their songs for his own “Photograph.” He settled the lawsuit the following year and credited Harrington and Leonard as ...