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• ED SHEERAN TAK THE STAND MARV GAYE PYRIGHT TRIAL OVER 2014 H 'THKG OUT LOUD'
• ED SHEERAN SGS SNIPPET OF ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ DURG MARV GAYE PYRIGHT GEMENT TRIAL
• ED SHEERAN’S ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ FAC TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L

ED SHEERAN TAK THE STAND MARV GAYE PYRIGHT TRIAL OVER 2014 H 'THKG OUT LOUD'

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“Y, Amy Wadge and I wrote the song ‘Thkg Out Loud, ’” he Newman/Associated PrsIn a closely watched mic pyright trial, jurors ultimately sid wh Ed Sheeran, who had been acced of pyg his Grammy-wng ballad “Thkg Out Loud” om Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On.

“Thkg Out Loud”Ed Sheeran“Let’s Get It On”Marv GayeWhat were the trial’s highlights? ”ImageEd Townsend was a songwrer and producer who llaborated wh Gaye on the “Let’s Get It On” Ochs Archiv/Getty ImagWhat parts of the songs are dispute? The trial was watched closely mic and legal circl as the latt example a seri of s that have alt wh whether monplace bs of harmony or melody n be owned by any poser or are part of the public trend began 2015 when a jury found that Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams, their h “Blurred L, ” had ged on the pyright of another Gaye tune, “Got to Give It Up, ” and they were orred to pay more than $5 ln damag.

ED SHEERAN SGS SNIPPET OF ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ DURG MARV GAYE PYRIGHT GEMENT TRIAL

This plat says Sheeran plagiarized Marv Gaye’s 1973 #1 h song, “Let’s Get It On, ” to wre his #2 h song, “Thkg Out Loud, ” the “Song of the Year” at the 2016 Grammy Awards. This actn om the fay and heirs of Gaye’s -wrer of “Let’s Get It On, ” Ed Townsend.

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ED SHEERAN’S ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ FAC TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L

NEW YORK — Ed Sheeran took the wns stand a New York urtroom Tuday to ny allegatns that his h song “Thkg Out Loud” ripped off Marv Gaye's soul classic “Let's Get It On. ”Sheeran, 32, was lled to ttify the civil trial by the heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's -wrer on the 1973 soul classic.

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Over the remblance of their 2013 h "Blurred L" to Gaye's 1977 "Got to Give Up. " A jury award Gaye's heirs $7. Songwrers clashg urt more often after 'Blurred L'Already a Motown superstar the 1960s before his more adult 1970s output ma him a generatnal mil giant, Gaye was killed 1984 at age 44, shot by his father as he tried to tervene a fight between his Sheeran has faced a pyright trial beforeMajor artists are often h wh lawsus allegg song-stealg, but nearly all settle before trial — as Taylor Swift recently did over "Shake Off, " endg a lawsu that lasted years longer and me closer to trial than most other Sheeran — whose mil style drawg om classic soul, pop and R&B has ma him a target for pyright lawsus — has shown a willgns to go to trial before.