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em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"></p><p data-no-id="1" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Here we go aga. Ed Sheeran has <style data-emotn="css nu68ka">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#83EAD7;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#000000;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;background-lor:#83EAD7;}</style><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="found himself as a fendant a new US lawsu" class="body-el-lk standard-body-el-lk body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">found himself as a fendant a new US lawsu</a> which claims he has pied elements of a classic Marv Gaye song. It's not 'Got To Give It Up' this time, which saw <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams havg to pay out £4.8m for pyright gement" class="body-el-lk standard-body-el-lk body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams havg to pay out £4.8m for pyright gement</a> over their 2013 h 'Blurred L' last year. No, 's the signifintly more inic 'Let's Get It On' that's apparently been ged Sheeran's 2014 chart-topper 'Thkg Out Loud'.</p><p data-no-id="3" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><span data-redactor-tag="span" data-verified="redactor" id="docs-ternal-guid-88610c7e-79d8-c52f-dbfb-a6216358ffad"></span></p><p data-no-id="5" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">It's important to note om the off that isn't Marv Gaye's tate who have filed the lawsu this time. Instead has been brought forward by the heirs of 'Let's Get It On' -wrer Ed Townsend. That beg said, if the Townsend tate is succsful, surely would raise a green flag for the Gay to swoop and also claim their half too? That, of urse, uld be a way off yet.</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="7" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="Marv Gaye performs on stage at De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1st July 1980." tle="Marv Gaye" loadg="lazy" width="3543" height="2406" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="//" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-ugzt81 e6iqd2">Rob Verhorst/Redferns</span><style data-emotn="css zrl62v">{paddg:0 0.3rem;paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:Montserrat,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.75rem;le-height:1;} a{lor:#000000;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;}</style><span class="css-zrl62v e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-ugzt81 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"></p><p data-no-id="10" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The Townsend heirs have alleged willful gement on Sheeran's part. "The harmonic progrsns, melodic and rhythmic elements, as observed Let's have ma [] one of the most well-known and stantly regnisable songs R&B history," the su reads. "The elements… are the 'heart' or qualatively, the most important elements of the song as dited by cril acclaim."</p><p data-no-id="12" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">When you hear Ed's vol om 'Thkg Out Loud' over an stmental of Gaye's 'Let's Get It On', do f very neatly. We're not suggtg the red-haired crooner wasn't spired by '70s soul, but pyright gement is largely attributed to melody and lyrics. Sheeran's melodic stcture and lyril ntent is pletely different. So the stmental might be siar, but the same four chords have been ed mic for s.</p><p data-no-id="14" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"></p><div data-no-id="16" class="embed embed--center embed--youtube"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 10klw3m">{height:100%;}</style><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><style data-emotn="css 63r9na">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;m-height:10rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;height:100%;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><style data-emotn="css 1msakm2">{width:3.125rem;height:3.125rem;}</style><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="18" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The fact that The Temptatns' 'My Girl' - released ne years before 'Let's Get It On' - also slis nicely to the above mash-up, suggts that Gaye's inic track wasn't exactly sensatnally origal to beg wh. Y remas inic, but so many songs that have stood the tt of time are relatively siar - particularly om that era. Motown founr Berry Gordy ma his empire on repackagg the same beats, chords and ias across all of his acts until the ia fally stuck wh the right one.</p><p data-no-id="20" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But what sticks wh is that, creasgly more, the s seems to always e om a bs boardroom, rather than a genue artistic jtice. <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Madonna kicked up a stk" class="body-el-lk standard-body-el-lk body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">Madonna kicked up a stk</a> when she realised Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' bared a remblance to her own 'Exprs Yourself', but she didn't sue. Earlier this year, <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="mash-ups of Brney Spears's 'Overprotected' and Meghan Traor's 'No'" class="body-el-lk standard-body-el-lk body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">mash-ups of Brney Spears's 'Overprotected' and Meghan Traor's 'No'</a> did the rounds, but they simply admted an appreciatn of each other - no lawyers volved. </p><p data-no-id="22" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"></p><div data-no-id="24" class="embed embed--center embed--youtube"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="26" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Hey, even when the openg bars of One Directn's 2014 sgle 'Steal My Girl' sound remarkably siar to The Who's 'Baba O'Reily', ontman Pete Townsend (same name, different fay) didn't even thk about brgg forward a lawsu. "No! I like the sgle. I like One Directn," <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="he said when asked if he was annoyed" class="body-el-lk standard-body-el-lk body-lk css-nu68ka et3p2gv0">he said when asked if he was annoyed</a>. "The chords I ed and the chords they ed are the same three chords we've all been g basic pop mic sce Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and Chuck Berry ma clear that fancy chords don't mean great mic – not always. I'm still wrg songs that sound like 'Baba O'Riley' – or I'm tryg to!"</p><p data-no-id="28" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Artists unrstand that - to a certa extent - the creative procs is always fluenced by what has e before . As film director Jim Jarmch famoly once said: "Authenticy is valuable, origaly is nonexistent." That's what mak this se brought forward agast Ed Sheeran so tratg. The Brish star has zero pretence. He knew he was creatg a straight-up pop ballad that would appeal to the mass - the referenc to classic soul are clear. It's been done a ln tim before by untls different artists, but the reason Ed's stuck and beme a h is bee he gave his <em data-redactor-tag="em">own heart</em>. We believe him when he<span> sgs those lyrics while tryg to keep up wh the ballroom dance.</span></p><p data-no-id="30" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"></p><div data-no-id="32" class="embed embed--center embed--youtube"><div supprsHydratnWarng class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><div data-embed="youtube" class="embed align-center css-10klw3m ez8lbhw1"><div class="css-63r9na ez8lbhw0"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/;id=lk-out-embed" loadg="lazy" alt="youtube in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1msakm2 ez8lbhw2" /><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" href=" aria-label="View full post on Youtube" class="css-0 e1c1bym14">View full post on Youtube</a></div></div></div></div><p data-no-id="34" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">So this isn't really a lawsu about protectg a classic song om pyright gement. This is a bs cisn. For the Townsend heirs to say that they have been "irreparably harmed [and] suffered damage" is borrg on ridiculo. It's as if to suggt that the mute 'Thkg Out Loud' was released, we all sudnly cid: "Oh fally - the 'Let's Get It On' replacement we've all been wag for. Time to lete old one and replace wh the new." </p><p data-no-id="36" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">But also suggts that a song released 43 years ago will face fancial damag, as if people were still buyg their lns at the turn of 2014. We're sure there have been plenty of soul songs the past four s that have evoked "the heart" of 'Let's Get It On', so why haven't the Townsend heirs gone after them too? Wh more than a ln pi of 'Thkg' sold the US, a further 2 ln the UK, and over a billn streams on Spotify, there's lns the pot already. It's a well-reared sh w ready to be rved. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="38" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><div class="css-p7qblm ewcw41w0"><img alt="Ed Sheeran performs on Day 3 of the Glastonbury Ftival at Worthy Farm on June 29, 2014" tle="Ed Sheeran performs on Day 3 of the Glastonbury Ftival at Worthy Farm on June 29, 2014" loadg="lazy" width="3007" height="2005" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="//" class="ptert css-1i6sckr e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/social/" loadg="lazy" alt="ptert in" height="to" width="to" class="css-1l3i1cl ewcw41w1" /></a></div><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-ugzt81 e6iqd2">Gary Wolstenholme</span><span class="css-zrl62v e6iqd0">//</span><span class="css-ugzt81 e6iqd1">Getty Imag</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="39" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"></p><p data-no-id="41" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">And that's what this sentially boils down to. Money. When Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams were forced to pay £4.8m to the Gaye tate last year, the mic dtry warned that set a ncerng precent for future s to be brought forward. And here we are, ltle over 12 months later.</p><p data-no-id="43" class="body-el-text standard-body-el-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The mic dtry is still reverg om the rise of piracy the early '00s, the recent cle digal sal, and the ever-evolvg issue of tryg to moise mic streamg so that artists and songwrers are paid fairly. If the fear of gement halts mic creativy, how n the bs beg to thrive aga? 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