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• ED SHEERAN SONG ‘SOUNDS VERY, VERY SIAR’ TO MARV GAYE’S, MIC EXPERT SAYS AT TRIAL
• ED SHEERAN PLAYS MASH-UP OF MARV GAYE SONGS DURG TTIMONY AT PYRIGHT TRIAL
• DID ED SHEERAN H STEAL MARV GAYE CLASSIC? TRIAL TO TELL.
• 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 SGS URT AS PART OF MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE
• ED SHEERAN TAK THE STAND MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT TRIAL
• HOW SIAR ARE ED SHEERAN AND MARV GAYE'S SONGS?
• ED SHEERAN DIDN'T STEAL OM MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON,' JURY L
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU
• ED SHEERAN SERENAS THE COURT MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT TRIAL
• ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’
• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• MARV GAYE
• TOP 10 MARV GAYE SONGS

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.

“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.

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

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. 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 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.

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

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. " 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.

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'

Marv Gaye. The fay of songwrer Ed Townsend alleg Sheeran ed parts of Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On.

The heirs of Marv Gaye's songwrg partner uld see a multi-ln-dollar payday their song theft lawsu agast Ed Sheeran. Sheeran fac allegatns om the fay of Ed Townsend, Gaye's wrg llaborator for "Let's Get It On, " who say the pop star pied parts of "Let's Get It On" for his own smash h, "Thkg Out Loud.

For Marv Gaye's son, Marv Gaye III, this se may seem, along wh his siblgs succsfully sued Pharrell and Rob Thicke 2015, for pyright gement. A jury found that the artists improperly -opted parts of his father's song "Got To Give It Up, " for their song, "Blurred L, " and award the Gaye fay a $5 ln payout. Gaye III is "watchg the proceedgs closely, " acrdg to Pl Philips, the lawyer who reprented him the "Blurred L" lawsu.

ED SHEERAN SGS URT AS PART OF MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE

Sheeran knows what he did – he misappropriated protected tellectual property directly om the md of the late, legendary Marv Gaye, " Philips said.

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. Ed Sheeran Tak the Stand Marv Gaye Copyright Trial.

ED SHEERAN TAK THE STAND MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT TRIAL

Ed Sheeran took the stand on Tuday a New York urtroom, nyg accatns that his h song “Thkg Out Loud, ” pied Marv Gaye’s soul classic “Let’s Get It On. A lawyer fendg the tate of a -wrer of Gaye’s 1973 song said he had “smokg gun” evince that Ed Sheeran took elements of the Seventi classic on his 2014 sgle durg his openg statement the civil trial agast the mician. Sheeran’s lawyer Irene Farkas told the urt that the mician and Amy Wadge wrote the “heartfelt song” on their own “whout pyg” Gaye.

Farkas explaed that the elements Sheeran’s song are equently ed and were not implemented by Gaye first. The new openg statements om Cmp e six years after the heirs of Ed Townsend — who -wrote the 1973 song wh Gaye — filed a lawsu agast Sheeran, allegg that had “strikg siari” that vlate the pyright. While the Gaye fay is not volved the “Thkg Out Loud” lawsus agast Sheeran, the precent set a different se volvg Gaye’s mic and “Blurred L” looms over all new pyright gement claims.

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

A jury award Gaye’s heirs $7. Ed Sheeran took the wns stand Tuday (April 25) a closely watched trial over whether his song “Thkg Out Loud” ged Marv Gaye’s famed “Let’s Get It On, ” repeatedly sparrg wh an opposg attorney as he strongly nied the allegatns.

While beg qutned by an attorney for his accers before a packed Manhattan feral urtroom, Sheeran said over and over that he had not pied Gaye’s song, and echoed the re legal fense advanced by his lawyers: that the only siari between the two tracks were mon mil elements that nnot be pyrighted. Tuday’s proceedgs marked the official start of a long-awaed trial a pyright lawsu filed way back 2017 by heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s longtime producer who -wrote “Let’s Get It On, ” over Sheeran’s “Thkg Out Loud” — a mercial and cril succs that h No. (Gaye’s actual heirs, who famoly won a jury verdict 2015 that Rob Thicke and Pharrell’s megah “Blurred L” ged the sger’s “Got to Give It Up, ” are not volved the se.

Ed Sheeran arriv at Manhattan Court to ttify on the pyright trial where he is acced of pyg Marv Gaye’s song, New York, Uned Stat on April 25, 2023. After the jury the “Blurred L” se found the song had ged Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up, ” Thicke and Williams were ultimately orred to pay a $5 ln judgment, pl ongog royalti om their song.

ED SHEERAN DIDN'T STEAL OM MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON,' JURY L

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.

ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU

Stephanie Keh | Bloomberg | Getty ImagA Manhattan feral jury led Thursday that pop star Ed Sheeran didn't ge on the pyright of Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On.

His wife and "Thkg Out Loud" -wrer Amy Wadge were seen lawsu was brought by the heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote "Let's Get It On" wh Gaye. Gaye died 1984, while Townsend died 2003.

ED SHEERAN SERENAS THE COURT MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT 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”. 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.

ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER 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. The sger played a chord progrsn om “Thkg Out Loud” on Thursday, hopg to distguish his song om Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On".

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

The sger sought to prove he did not dupe Marv Gaye’s soul classic “Let’s Get It On” durg the pyright gement trial.

MARV GAYE

Sheeran’s ttimony six years after the heirs of Ed Townsend — who -wrote the 1973 song wh Gaye — filed a lawsu agast Sheeran, allegg that had “strikg siari” that vlate the pyright.

TOP 10 MARV GAYE SONGS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTEd Sheeran Ws Copyright Case Over Marv Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’The pop star was acced of pyg the 1973 classic for his 2014 h “Thkg Out Loud.

Sheeran had created his song “Thkg Out Loud” penntly and did not py Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagA feral jury found on Thursday that the pop sger Ed Sheeran did not py Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On” for his 2014 h “Thkg Out Loud, ” the mic dtry’s hight-profile pyright se two weeks a downtown Manhattan urtroom, Mr.

Wadge observed among elrs their two tracks share a siar synpated chord pattern that the fay of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s -wrer, which filed the su, lled the “heart” of “Let’s Get It On. ”“Thkg Out Loud”Ed Sheeran“Let’s Get It On”Marv GayeThe se, which was filed 2017 and had been layed part by the ronavis panmic, volved qutns of origaly pop mic that have been tted a seri of recent s, stokg fears among micians that the le between spiratn and plagiarism was beg a 2015 cisn that shook the bs, Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams’s song “Blurred L” was found to have ged Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.