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• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• MARV GAYE
• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• ED SHEERAN FAC US COPYRIGHT TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• JURY FDS ED SHEERAN DIDN'T COPY MARV GAYE CLASSIC
• TRIAL DATE SET FOR ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT LAWSU
• ED SHEERAN TO FACE TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PLAGIARISM LAWSU

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

Urt: The Inditor om Pla Money Did Ed Sheeran steal om Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On" his h sgle "Thkg Out Loud"?

Left photo: Ed Sheeran, who is beg sued by the heirs of Ed Townsend, wrer of Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On". Right photo: Marv Gaye.

Today on the show, did Ed Sheeran steal om Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On" his h sgle "Thkg Out Loud"? NEW YORK — A feral jury New York nclud Thursday that Brish sger Ed Sheeran didn't steal key ponents of Marv Gaye's classic 1970s tune "Let's Get It On" when he created his h song "Thkg Out Loud.

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He then spoke for about 10 mut wh the platiffs, cludg the dghter of Ed Townsend, who -created the 1973 soul classic wh Gaye. Gaye was killed 1984 at age 44, shot by his father as he tried to tervene a fight between his parents. Sger Ed Sheeran leav feral urt after ttifyg agast allegatns that his h song "Thkg Out Loud, " ripped off Marv Gaye's soul classic "Let's Get It On, " Wednday, April 26, 2023, New York.

NEW YORK — In a packed New York urtroom, Ed Sheeran picked up his guar Thursday and lnched to a tune that has him locked a pyright dispute over Marv Gaye's soul classic "Let's Get On" as the only dience that mattered — a jury — looked on.

" Then he lnched to the song that heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's -wrer on "Let's Get It On, " say has "strikg siari" and "over mon elements" to the famed 1973 Gaye mil treasure. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LET'S GET IT ON")MARVIN GAYE: (Sgg) I've been really tryg, "Let's Get It On" was performed by Marv Gaye, but was -wrten by Ed Townsend. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)SHEERAN: (Sgg) Let's get So he n't be like, Marv Gaye - never heard of Right.

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

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LET'S GET IT ON")GAYE: (Sgg) I've been really tryg, baby. "(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BLURRED LINES")PHARRELL: Everybody get Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams were acced of pyg another Marv Gaye song, "Got To Give It Up. "(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GOT TO GIVE IT UP")GAYE: (Sgg) I ed to go out to In that se, the platiff argued that, look; both songs have this, like, funky bassle and this wbell part, and those are all evince of pyg.

And this is about whether anyone, cludg the next Ed Townsend and the next Marv Gaye, n e the basic buildg blocks when wrg their own songs.

Marv Gaye Marv Gaye artist page: terviews, featur and/or performanc archived at NPR Mic.

ED SHEERAN FAC US COPYRIGHT TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON'

Marv Gaye's 1971 album, What's Gog On is regard for s pictn of the social unrt of the time, as well as s mil bety.

JURY FDS ED SHEERAN DIDN'T COPY MARV GAYE CLASSIC

Ed Sheeran's song "Thkg Out Loud" is now the target of two lawsus allegg siari to Marv Gaye's "Let's Get On" that ge on pyright. Marv Gaye walks ahead of his Rolls Royce Nottg Hill, London, 1976.

Detail of ver art om the 1974 album Marv Gaye Live! Marv Gaye (at left), pictured here cir 1964, at the age of 25.

Gaye died 1984, two years before Drake was born.

TRIAL DATE SET FOR ED SHEERAN-MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT LAWSU

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ED SHEERAN TO FACE TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PLAGIARISM LAWSU

Marv Gaye's 'What's Gog On': Songs We Love. A Tribute to Marv Gaye. 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?

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. The gger troubadour was first sued over the h song last year by the heirs of Edward Townsend, Jr., a -wrer of Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On, " which they claim "Thkg Out Loud" cribs om enough to warrant a lawsu. Marv Gaye All Sat's Road, London 1976.

The new su clus tailed explanatns of mic theory orr to expla the songs' supposed siari — "In Gaye's song, this chord progrsn wh the backg pattern occurs the key of E flat, and Sheeran's song the progrsn occurs D major... " It's not the first su filed agast a morn h acced of pyg a song by Gaye: Rob Thicke and Pharrell's song "Blurred L" was the subject of another lawsu, over s supposed siary to Gaye's 1977 h "Got to Give It Up.

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Townsend’s heirs sued Sheeran for pyright gement 2017, claimg “Thkg Out Loud” pied the “heart” of Gaye’s song cludg s melody, harmony, and lawsu said Sheeran has performed the two songs live as a medley and transned “seamlsly” between them. The first trial is expected to last about a heirs said a urt filg that they received 22 percent of the wrer’s share of Gaye’s song om Townsend.