Ed Sheeran is accused of coping with Marvin Gary’s song “Let’s Get It Out.”
Ed Sheeran, a globally famous singer, has appeared in a New York City court to make his claim that he didn’t copy Marvin Gaye‘s song “Let’s Get It Out” in his new song “Thinking Out Loud.”
According to Ed Townsend, who wrote the song with Gaye, Sheeran, Sony Music Publishing, and Warner Music Group, they are all owed money for allegedly copying the song’s tune.
The British singer and Grammy winner, 32, claimed that he did not copy Gaye’s 1973 hit.
When questions were asked by lawyer Keisha Rice about another song he created, Take It Back, which has the lyrics “plagiarism is hidden,” Sheeran acknowledged that he was the writer of those particular phrases.
When Ms. Rice interrupted him, Sheeran said that he occasionally combined songs with similar chords during his concerts, which made him angry.
The trial is anticipated to go on for at least a week. The trial will move into a second phase to establish how much the pop artist owes if the jury judges him to be responsible for copyright infringement.
The artist is getting ready to start a stadium tour throughout North America and drop a new album when the legal dispute arises.
Tuesday morning, Sheeran’s attorney argued that both songs are unique from one another and that no musician should be permitted to “monopolise” well-known chord progressions.
According to the publication, Kathryn Gryphon-Townsend described Sheeran as “a great artist with a great future.” Despite her reluctance, she informed the jury that she was bringing the lawsuit because “I have to protect my father’s legacy.”
This was not the first time the song faced a copyright trial. “Investment banker”, David Pullman and a business called “Structured Asset Sales (SAS),” which had recently acquired a piece of “Let’s Get It On” co-writer Ed Townsend’s estate, first filed the claim over Thinking Out Loud in 2018.
The plaintiffs are seeking $100 million (£90 million) in damages, claiming that Sheeran and his writing partner Amy Wadge “copied and misused, without authorization or credit,” the Gaye song.
“Thinking Out Loud,” which reached the top spot in the UK in 2014 and won Song of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 2016, is the subject of additional trials that Ed Sheeran is currently going through.
In the meantime, a different lawsuit brought by a different piece of Townsend’s estate is going to trial, and SAS has launched a second case, which is now on hold.
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