Ed Sheeran Acced of Rippg Off Marv Gaye wh 'Thkg Out Loud,' Sued For $100 Milln

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• ED SHEERAN SONG ‘SOUNDS VERY, VERY SIAR’ TO MARV GAYE’S, MIC EXPERT SAYS AT TRIAL
• ED SHEERAN SGS SNIPPET OF ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ DURG MARV GAYE PYRIGHT GEMENT TRIAL
• ED SHEERAN ACCED OF RIPPG OFF MARV GAYE WH 'THKG OUT LOUD,' SUED FOR $100 MILLN

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?

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ED SHEERAN SGS SNIPPET OF ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ DURG MARV GAYE PYRIGHT GEMENT TRIAL

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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.

This plat says Sheeran plagiarized Marv Gaye’s 1973 #1 h song, “Let’s Get It On, ” to wre his #2 h song, “Thkg Out Loud, ” the “Song of the Year” at the 2016 Grammy Awards. This actn om the fay and heirs of Gaye’s -wrer of “Let’s Get It On, ” Ed Townsend. And not Marv Gaye’s heirs and who famoly last year won a $7.

ED SHEERAN ACCED OF RIPPG OFF MARV GAYE WH 'THKG OUT LOUD,' SUED FOR $100 MILLN

4M judgement agast Rob Thicke and Pharell for jackg mega-h, “Blurred L, ” om Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up. He’s jt beg funny; an nocent mil joke — Sheeran is jtifiably fortable that spe the obv siari, he didn’t steal anythg that Gaye and Townsend really own  “Let’s Get It On. And then we also have Marv Gaye and Ed Sheeran sgg words and melodi along wh that groove.

Ed Sheeran performed a snippet of “Thkg Out Loud” ont of a Manhattan urtroom Thursday, sgg and stmmg a few not on an atic guar durg his Marv Gaye pyright gement trial.

Sheeran’s appearance me after his attorney Ilene Farkas lled him to the stand to refute ments ma by the platiffs’ milogist Alexanr Stewart, who argued that the first 24 sends of “Thkg Out Loud” were siar to the begng of Gaye’s “Let’s Get On. Ed Sheeran performed a snippet of “Thkg Out Loud” ont of a Manhattan urtroom Thursday, sgg and stmmg a few not on an atic guar durg his Marv Gaye pyright gement Tabak. Kathryn Townsend Griff — the dghter of the late Ed Townsend, who -wrote the 1973 R&B classic wh Gaye — wasn’t prent Thursday.