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Contents:

• JURY FDS ED SHEERAN DIDN’T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC
• DID ED SHEERAN H STEAL MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL.
• MARV GAYE - COLLECTED
• ED SHEERAN PLAYS MASH-UP OF MARV GAYE SONGS DURG TTIMONY AT PYRIGHT TRIAL
• ED SHEERAN’S ATTORNEY SAYS THERE’S NO ‘SMOKG GUN’ MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: ‘SHOOTG BLANKS’
• ED SHEERAN SGS URT AS PART OF MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU
• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• ED SHEERAN SONG ‘SOUNDS VERY, VERY SIAR’ TO MARV GAYE’S, MIC EXPERT SAYS AT TRIAL
• ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’
• ED SHEERAN MT FACE TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L
• DID ED SHEERAN PY MARV GAYE’S “LET’S GET IT ON”?

JURY FDS ED SHEERAN DIDN’T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC

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?

DID ED SHEERAN H STEAL MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL.

”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. In a send legal victory for Ed Sheeran this month, a feral district judge dismissed another lawsu that claimed Sheeran’s h “Thkg Out Loud” pied the 1973 Marv Gaye h “Let’s Get It On.

The lawsu, brought by Stctured Asset Sal LLC, vtment banker David Pullman’s pany that owns one-third of the pyright to “Let’s Get It On, ” is nnected to a prev lawsu Sheeran won earlier this month agast the fay of Gaye’s -wrer Edward Townsend. A te rerdg of the Marv Gaye h was not admissible as evince for the jury to nsir the most recent trial. NEW YORK (AP) — Brish sger Ed Sheeran didn’t steal key ponents of Marv Gaye’s classic 1970s tune “Let’s Get It On” to create his h song “Thkg Out Loud, ” a jury said wh a trial verdict Thursday, promptg Sheeran to joke later that he won’t have to follow through on his threat to qu emotns of an epic pyright fight that stretched across most of the last spilled out as soon as the seven-person jury revealed s verdict after over two hours of liberatns.

Ed Sheeran says he’s gettg enuragement om other performers who also worry that they’ll be sued after they heard he is ttifyg agast claims that he stole material om Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On. Brish sger Ed Sheeran sang a few lyrics om one of his songs and played a few chords on a guar for a New York jury, hopg to h the right not wh a jury cidg whether the song vlat the pyrights of Marv Gaye’s soul classic “Let’s Get It On.

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He also approached platiff Kathryn Townsend Griff, the dghter of Ed Townsend, who -created the 1973 soul classic wh Gaye and had ttified. Jury selectn and openg statements began Monday a trial that mash up Ed Sheeran's "Thkg Out Loud" wh Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On.

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

" The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's -wrer of the 1973 soul classic, sued Sheeran, allegg the English pop star's 2014 h tune has "strikg siari" to "Let's Get It On" and "overt mon elements" that vlate their two songs were released s apart, but some say they sound seamls when paired together. The Amerin Soul mician Marv Gaye, who died 1984, performs onstage at the Holiday Star Theater, Merrillville, Indiana, June 10, 1983. Over the remblance of their 2013 h "Blurred L" to Gaye's 1977 classic "Got to Give Up.

A jury award Gaye's heirs $7. 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 parents. Marv Gaye.

” By 1966, the year when he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, Gaye was already an tablished star on the R & B charts. Releasg one h opened the floodgat for Gaye, who subsequently charted wh “Hch Hike, ” “Pri and Joy, ” and “Can I Get a Wns.

ED SHEERAN’S ATTORNEY SAYS THERE’S NO ‘SMOKG GUN’ MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: ‘SHOOTG BLANKS’

”But the aim for Gaye’s sixth stud album was a b different – Gaye wanted to show that he uld bee an album-oriented artist as well as a teen idol and h maker. The rult was The Moods of Marv Gaye, released by Motown Rerds 1966. To promote the new album and give his fans a chance to see the more artistic si of him, Marv agreed to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show on June 19th, performance marks the only time that Gaye graced the show wh his talents, a shame nsirg how gifted of an artist he was.

ED SHEERAN SGS URT AS PART OF MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE

Like Cooke, Gaye’s pure sgg voice and ptivatg se allowed him to be credibly popular wh fans of all ag, om adults who had grown up listeng to the Frank Satra and Nat Kg Cole, to the teenagers who were quickly gravatg towards the sound and soul of went on to achieve enormo mercial succs throughout his reer, and displayed his versatily as an artist. He was ducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1987, Rollg Stone magaze named him #6 on s list of The Greatt Sgers of All Time, and he has ma the Billboard chart five tim Gaye’s performance on The Ed Sullivan Show provis wh a glimpse to his early reer and giv a chance to watch one of the most enigmatic performers who has ever lived. Marv Gaye sets the mood every time and his sound recreate an image of Marv’s Room.

Towards the end Gaye gets back his love groove, but way ls nocent. Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on October 31, 2022I orred this knowg the name Marv Gaye, and a few of his songs but not much about his entire disgraphy. After a uple play throughs of this, I’ve e to appreciate Marv Gaye much more, and started explorg his album sampl om across his reer, and you n hear the evolutn over time.

ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU

I thk this is a great choice for someone that isn’t sure necsarily where to start and wants a Marv Gaye 101 album.

Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on January 13, 2019What n one really say about an LP of Marv Gaye? Reviewed the Uned Stat ?? on May 29, 2018This double vyl is an excellent reer retrospective for Marv Gaye, if a ltle ncise. Betiful album art and a great list of Marv Gaye’s mic.

Reviewed Brazil ?? on Febary 20, 2020Eu ada era criança quando ouvi pela primeira vez Marv Gaye, no rád. Mas, bom gosto mmo, é a Arte Marv Gaye.

JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'

"Ed Sheeran picked up his guar and performed a mash-up of his songs and Marv Gaye's as he tried to monstrate how mon the four-chord progrsn was for his h "Thkg Out Loud. Sheeran won a pyright gement se last year volvg "Shape of You, " while Gaye's heirs, who are not volved this current lawsu, won a se 2015 agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams volvg "Got to Give Up.

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

Ed Sheeran’s attorney turned up the volume her closg arguments Tuday — chargg there is no “smokg gun” the pyright lawsu accg her client of pyg Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get On. Farkas’ rebuttal me after attorneys for the heirs of the late Ed Townsend – who -wrote the 1973 R&B classic wh Gaye – revealed what they said was their “smokg gun” the pyright su agast Sheeran.

Attorney Ben Cmp, his openg statement last week, argued a vio of Sheeran mergg his song “Thkg Out Loud” and “Let’s Get On” at a 2014 ncert amounted to a “nfsn” om the Brish pop star that he’d ripped off Gaye’s h to wre his own tune. The four-time Grammy award-wng mician prevly ttified that Gaye’s timels classic never crossed his md when he wrote “Thkg Out Loud” one night after takg a shower.

Farkas also slammed the platiffs’ mic expert Alexanr Stewart’s “half-baked analysis” claimg to prove Sheeran stole om Gaye — cludg Stewart’s ttimony that the first 24 sends of the two songs were intil.

ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

Attorneys claim that Sheeran ripped off Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get On” his song “Thkg out Loud.

Ed Sheeran played the chord progrsn to his h song Thkg Out Loud and sang on the wns stand Manhattan feral urt on Thursday, durg a trial over whether he pied Marv Gaye’s classic Let’s Get On. “I draw spiratn om a lot om thgs my life and fay, ” said Sheeran, sayg the song was spired by the love he observed between his 32-year-old is beg sued by heirs of songwrer Ed Townsend, Gaye’s -wrer on the 1973 song. Gaye died trial is expected to rume on Monday.

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 MT FACE TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L

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.

DID ED SHEERAN PY MARV GAYE’S “LET’S GET IT ON”?

“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. Ed Townsend may not be a hoehold name, but he occupied a signifint place the mic world as a producg partner to Marv Gaye and -wrer of the 1973 soul classic, “Let’s Get It On.

Bee “Let’s Get It On” was ma and released prr to 1978, the trial judge (followg the lead of California’s 9th Circu the 2020 “Stairway to Heaven” se) has already led that only the ntents of the sheet mic filed wh the Copyright Office (AKA the “pos py”) are protected such that the jury will not get to hear Gaye’s rerdg.