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• ED SHEERAN SUED FOR SEND TIME OVER MARV GAYE 'RIP-OFF'
• YOU HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE: THE ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE TRIAL STARTS TODAY
• ED SHEERAN SONG ‘SOUNDS VERY, VERY SIAR’ TO MARV GAYE’S, MIC EXPERT SAYS AT TRIAL
• TRIAL DATE SET FOR ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT LAWSU
• ED SHEERAN TTIFI MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: ‘MOST POP SONGS N F OVER MOST POP SONGS’
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU
• ED SHEERAN PLAYS MASH-UP OF MARV GAYE SONGS DURG TTIMONY AT PYRIGHT TRIAL

ED SHEERAN SUED FOR SEND TIME OVER MARV GAYE 'RIP-OFF'

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, had acced the pop star of pyg “Thkg Out Loud.

“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?

YOU HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE: THE ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE TRIAL STARTS TODAY

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.

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Sheeran’s tour support of his latt album, Subtract, rum next weekend see our nng list of the top 100 greatt rock stars of all time, click post Ed Sheeran Found Not Guilty Marv Gaye Copyright Ingement Case appeared first on SPIN. Ed Sheeran has been sued for a send time over allegatns that his song Thkg Out Loud rips off Marv Gaye’s Let’s Get It On.

ED SHEERAN SONG ‘SOUNDS VERY, VERY SIAR’ TO MARV GAYE’S, MIC EXPERT SAYS AT TRIAL

A pany lled Stctured Asset Sal, which owns part of the pyright of Gaye’s song, is sug Sheeran for $100m (£76. 4m), allegg that his 2014 sgle pi “the melody, rhythms, harmoni, dms, bass le, backg chos, tempo, synpatn and loopg” of Gaye’s 1973 h.

Pullman claims to have done a al wh the son of Gaye’s late -wrer, Ed Townsend Jr, and says he owns a part of the song and therefore a stake the ligatn, reports the Hollywood Reporter. 1m) Gaye: Let’s Get It On – vioThe Blurred L se has led to many artists credg mor remblanc their songs orr to avoid potential lawsus. Sheeran released his sixth stud album "Subtract" May, jt one day after he prevailed a jury trial related to accatns the Brish sger pied Marv Gaye's 1973 h "Let's Get On" his 2014 Grammy-wng song "Thkg Out Loud.

TRIAL DATE SET FOR ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT LAWSU

Mician Ed Sheeran is facg a high-profile pyright trial about whether his sgle "Thkg Out Loud" pied the classic Marv Gaye song "Let's Get It On. Sheeran is ttifyg a trial that will terme whether the Brish pop sensatn stole mil property om Motown legend Marv Gaye. The trial is set to beg Monday Manhattan wh jury selectn and openg 2016, the fay of Gaye’s late songwrg partner, Ed Townsend, filed a lawsu allegg that Sheeran’s popular track “Thkg Out Loud” plagiarized the Gaye classic “Let’s Get It On.

ED SHEERAN TTIFI MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: ‘MOST POP SONGS N F OVER MOST POP SONGS’

” Townsend’s heirs ntend the plat that “Thkg Out Loud” pilfers “the heart” of “Let’s Get It On” by g “melodic, harmonic and rhythmic posns” that are “substantially and/or strikgly siar to the dm posn” of Gaye’s sexy tune. ”By brgg this se, Townsend’s fay members are followg the footsteps of Gaye’s heirs, who prevly won $7. 4 ln after sug Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams for molg their chart-toppg sgle “Blurred L” after Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.

Mician Ed Sheeran’s urt se ntued Wednday a high-profile pyright trial about whether his smash sgle “Thkg Out Loud” pied the classic Marv Gaye song “Let’s Get It On.

Sheeran is acced of pyg “Let’s Get It On” by the heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote the 1973 h wh Gaye.

ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU

Gaye died 1984 and Townsend died 2003.

In his own openg statement Tuday, Townsend attorney Ben Cmp noted Sheeran played his ballad and Gaye’s song back-to-back a medley durg a ncert, and lled the moment a “smokg gun. Ed Sheeran will be gog to urt this summer to face a $100 ln lawsu that acc him of rippg off the Marv Gaye song “Let’s Get On. Circu Court of Appeals New York, claims Sheeran’s Grammy-wng song “Thkg Out Loud” has the “same melody, rhythms, harmoni, dms, bass le, backg chos, tempo, synpatn and loopg” as Gaye’s 1973 No.

1 n hear both songs together this vio:Donahue poted out on Twter that Sheeran asked a feral judge to end the se last year whout a jury trial, sayg any siari between his song and Gaye’s were due to monplace mil trop not protected by pyright. ”Sheeran’s reps did not immediately reply to a requt for announcement of the trial date jt two months after a California urt orred sgers Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke to pay $5 ln to Gaye’s fay for pyright gement of Gaye’s 1977 work “Got to Give It Up” the duo’s h 2013 song “Blurred L. Ed Sheeran has fend his songwrg a New York urt after was alleged that he imated Marv Gaye’s song Let’s Get It On for his own h ballad Thkg Out lawsu is beg brought by the heirs of Gaye’s -wrer on Let’s Get It On, Ed Townsend, and was origally filed 2017.

ED SHEERAN PLAYS MASH-UP OF MARV GAYE SONGS DURG TTIMONY AT PYRIGHT TRIAL

A jury New York has led that Brish sger-songwrer Ed Sheeran is not liable for pyright gement a se that has been closely watched by the global entertament se centered on whether Sheeran ripped off Marv Gaye’s Let’s Get It On and will be seen as a major victory for rerdg artists.

Sheeran’s lawyer, Ilene Farkas, had told the jurors Manhattan feral urt that siari the chord progrsns and rhythms of Gaye’s classic and Sheeran’s h Thkg Out Loud were “the letters of the alphabet of mic”.

“The are basic mil buildg blocks that songwrers now and forever mt be ee to e, or all of who love mic will be poorer for , ” she Keisha Rice, who reprents the heirs of Gaye’s -wrer Ed Townsend who are sug Sheeran and his rerd label, said her clients had not claimed to own basic mil elements but rather “the way which the mon elements were uniquely bed”.