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

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Milogy analysis and mentary related to pyright lawsu between Ed Sheeran and Marv Gaye.

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

The heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, had acced the pop star of pyg “Thkg Out Loud.” * marvin gaye thinking out loud *

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. 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.

ED SHEERAN SGS SNIPPET OF ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ DURG MARV GAYE PYRIGHT GEMENT 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." * marvin gaye thinking out loud *

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. 4M judgement agast Rob Thicke and Pharell for jackg mega-h, “Blurred L, ” om Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up.

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

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.

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

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