Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” in composing his hit “Thinking Out Loud,” calling the ruling a win for creative freedom.
British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran departs Manhattan Federal Court in New York, on May 4, 2023. – British pop phenom Ed Sheeran did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” when composing his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud,” a US jury ruled Thursday. The jurors spent some three hours deliberating whether Sheeran’s song and Gaye’s classic are substantially similar and if their common elements are protected by copyright law.
A musicologist retained by the defense told the court the four-chord sequence was used in a number of songs before Gaye’s hit came out in 1973. There have been a handful of landmark music copyright cases in recent years, notably when Gaye’s family — who was not part of the New York lawsuit against Sheeran — successfully sued the artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams over similarities between the song “Blurred Lines” and Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.”
“I hope that the verdict gives songwriters and publishers some sense of relief that they don’t need to be looking over their shoulders quite so much,” said Joseph Fishman, a law professor specialized in intellectual property at Vanderbilt University.– ‘Sanity prevailed’ –
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