2023-05-04 19:36:09
British musician Ed Sheeran won his civil trial in New York on Thursday, May 4, where he was prosecuted for plagiarizing a song by American Marvin Gaye.
The jury in Manhattan federal court, which had been trying for ten days in the emblematic music copyright case, found that the 32-year-old singer had created his song ” independently “ and that his 2014 planetary hit, Thinking out Loud was therefore not a partial copy of the famous Let’s Get It On of the prince of soul Marvin Gaye. He was being sued by the heirs of songwriter Ed Townsend, who created this soul classic in 1973 with Mr. Gaye. According to them, Thinking out Loud had so many similarities with Let’s Get It On that it violated the song’s copyright protection.
At the start of the trial, attorney Ben Crump told jurors, on behalf of the Townsend heirs, that Mr Sheeran himself sometimes performed the two songs together. The jury saw the video of a concert in Switzerland in which Sheeran can be heard going from Let’s Get It On To Thinking out Loud on the scene. Ben Crump assured that this was irrefutable proof that he had stolen the famous song.
During his testimony, Ed Sheeran repeatedly picked up a guitar from behind him in the witness box to show how he created « mashups » of songs during his concerts in order to “spice it up a bit” his show for his large crowds.
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