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• ED SHEERAN SONG ‘SOUNDS VERY, VERY SIAR’ TO MARV GAYE’S, MIC EXPERT SAYS AT TRIAL
• HOW SIAR ARE ED SHEERAN AND MARV GAYE'S SONGS?
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU
• YOU HEARD THROUGH THE GRAPEVE: THE ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE TRIAL STARTS TODAY
• ED SHEERAN ULD BE ON THE HOOK FOR LNS AS THE FAY OF MARV GAYE'S SONGWRG PARTNER ACCE HIM OF STEALG OM 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• ED SHEERAN PLAYS MASH-UP OF MARV GAYE SONGS DURG TTIMONY AT PYRIGHT TRIAL

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

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. 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.

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HOW SIAR ARE ED SHEERAN AND MARV GAYE'S SONGS?

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ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU

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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. 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.

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

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

Gaye died 1984 and Townsend died 2003.

ED SHEERAN ULD BE ON THE HOOK FOR LNS AS THE FAY OF MARV GAYE'S SONGWRG PARTNER ACCE HIM OF STEALG OM 'LET'S GET IT ON'

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. The Brish sger-songwrer nied all along that his song 'Thkg Out Loud' pied Marv Gaye's song 'Let's Get On' BBC's Mark Savage broke down the differenc between both h tracks.

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”.

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

Townsend’s heirs 2017 sued Sheeran, his label Warner Mic Group and his mic publisher Sony Mic Publishg, claimg gement of their pyright tert the Gaye song. “If I had done what you’re accg me of dog I’d be que an idt to stand on stage ont of 25, 000 people, ” he sger is also facg claims over Thkg Out Loud the same urt om a pany owned by vtment banker David Pullman that holds pyright terts the Gaye song.

3m judgment om a lawsu claimg the Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams song Blurred L pied Gaye’s Got to Give It sger is the subject of a new Disney+ documentary doceri Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All which premiered earlier this week. However, his songwrg recently land him hot water for a send time[ii] when the fay of Ed Townsend, who -thored the song “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, acced Mr. Sheeran’s song was so siar to that of Townsend and Gaye’s that nstuted “theft.