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Jury To Decide Ed Sheeran, Marvin Gaye Infringement Case

US district judge Louis Stanton has ruled that a jury will decide the outcome of a plagiarism lawsuit against Ed Sheeran over his No. 1 single “Thinking Out Loud.” The. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/01/jury-to-decide-ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-infringement-case.html]

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image from celebrityaccess.comUS district judge Louis Stanton has ruled that a jury will decide the outcome of a plagiarism lawsuit against Ed Sheeran over his No. 1 single “Thinking Out Loud.” The lawsuit, which alleges that Sheeran copied portions of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s Get It On,” was launched against the singer, Sony/ATV and Atlantic Records by the estate of producer Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the song.While Sheeran and his team have denied the claims, judge Stanton – who is also overseeing a separate $100 million lawsuit over the same song launched by Structured Asset Sales which owns part of the copyright of “Let’s Get It On” – said that he found “substantial similarities between several of the two works’ musical elements”.“Thinking Out Loud” has spent 118 weeks in the Top 100.The ruling arrives less than a month after a California judge ruled against the writers of “Blurred Lines” in a case involving copying infringement of another one of Gaye’s song.

photo: Ed Sheeran Eva Rinaldi / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

– CelebrityAccess

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