Ed Sheeran didn't ge pyright of Marv Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' : NPR

Contents:

• 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 MT FACE TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L
• ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED BY JURY OF COPYG MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON,’ SAYS ‘I WILL NEVER ALLOW MYSELF TO BE A PIGGY BANK’
• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• DID ED SHEERAN H STEAL MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL.

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

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?

TRIAL DATE SET FOR ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT LAWSU

”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?

ED SHEERAN MT FACE TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L

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. 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.

ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘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. 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 CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE 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.

Superstar Marv Gaye, to his home Los Angel, to hear some new tun. Gaye and Townsend agreed to spl their share of the posn’s future earngs.

Gaye rerd the song L. Gaye, addn to his soarg vol, played keyboard on the rerd. The song, Gaye’s first No.

ED SHEERAN CLEARED BY JURY OF COPYG MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON,’ SAYS ‘I WILL NEVER ALLOW MYSELF TO BE A PIGGY BANK’

“Let’s Get It On” lnched a new phase Gaye’s reer; four years later, his song “Got to Give It Up” also reached No.

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

Before his ath, a filici by Marv Gaye, Sr., 1984, Gaye had a fal smash wh “Sexual Healg.

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

” He did jt that wh “Blurred L, ” his 2013 h wh Rob Thicke, for which he seemed to metabolize almost every aspect of Marv Gaye’s 1977 h “Got to Give It Up, ” cludg the crowd nois and the wbell. In 2015, found that the posers of “Blurred L” had illegally pied Gaye’s song. The songwrers were ultimately forced to pay the Gaye fay $5.

The dissentg judge on the Nth Circu Court of Appeals, Jacquele Nguyen, scribed the lg as “a vastatg blow to future micians and posers everywhere, ” bee allowed “the Gay to acplish what no one has before: pyright a mil style. “I n’t tell you how many lls we get after the Grammys, ” Judh Fell, who was the Gaye fay’s expert milogist the “Blurred L” se, told me. Stewart heard enough siari between the two songs to wre a report sayg that Sheeran and Wadge were gg on Gaye and Townsend.

Gaye’s piano and the Funk Brothers’ addns to the groove, such as the bass le, weren’t on the pos py. Gaye, who didn’t read mic, probably never even saw the transcriptn.

) Ingrid Monson, the Qucy Jon Profsor of Ain Amerin Mic at Harvard, who also served as an expert wns for the Gaye fay the “Blurred L” trial, told me, “There uld be no pyright system ls sued to rewardg the creativy of Ain Amerin mic than the one we have. To crics, her prentatn was all smoke and mirrors, signed to trick the jury to thkg that a llectn of unprotectable elements was forensic proof that “Blurred L” was staed wh Marv Gaye’s mil Sheeran leav a Southern District of New York urthoe on April 26th, after ttifyg Griff v.

He timated that seventy per cent of the “mil value” of Sheeran’s song was rived om Gaye and Townsend’s. He poted out that the chord progrsn Ed Townsend had played for Gaye was so mon that was elementary mic-method books such as “How to Play Rock ’n’ Roll Piano, ” published 1967.

”Ilene Farkas, who closed for the fense, noted that we were all here bee, exactly fifty years ago, Ed Townsend sat down at his piano and played Marv Gaye four chords. I., and Pharrell Williams, “Blurred L” (Star Trak); Johnny Cash, “Folsom Prison Blu” (Sun Label Group); The Chiffons “He’s So Fe” (Capol Rerds); Marv Gaye, “Let’s Get It On” (Motown Rerd Company); Cory Daye, “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” (Featherbed Mic); Tom Petty, “I Won’t Back Down” (MCA Rerds); Gee Harrison, “My Sweet Lord” (G. Estate); Gordon Jenks, “Crcent Cy Blu” (Universal Mic); Miguel Bosé, “Don Diablo” (Sony Mic); Sami Swch, “Oh Why” (Sami Swch); The Gap Band, “Oops Upsi Your Head” (One Media); Sam Smh, “Stay wh Me” (Capol Rerds); Paramore, “Misery Bs” (Atlantic Rerdg); Ed Sheeran, “Shape of You” (Asylum Rerds); Bno Mars, “Uptown Funk” (Kobalt Mic); Matt Cardle, “Amazg” (Columbia); Dua Lipa, “Levatg” (Warner Rerds UK); TLC, “No Scbs” (LaFace Rerds); Katy Perry and Juicy J, “Dark Horse” (Capol Rerds); Olivia Rodrigo, “Good 4 U” (Geffen Rerds); Ed Sheeran, “Photograph” (Asylum Rerds UK); Ed Sheeran, “Thkg Out Loud” (Asylum Rerds UK); Led Zeppel, “Stairway to Heaven” (Mythgem); Marv Gaye, “Got to Give It Up” (Motown Rerds); Flame, “Joyful Noise” (Cross Movement Rerds); Spir, “Ts” (Sony Mic); Artikal Sound System, “Live Your Life” (Controlled Substance Sound Labs).