Ed Sheeran “happy” to win US Copyright Trial

Therdy Mendoza

May 5, 2023

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  Pop phenom Ed Sheeran expressed joy and relief after a US jury found he did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” in composing his hit song “Thinking Out Loud.”

  The English musician told reporters that he is “happy” but also “unbelievably frustrated in baseless claims like this” even to make it to trial.

  The lawsuit was filed by heirs of Gaye co-writer Ed Townsend, who alleged that harmonic progressions and rhythmic elements of Sheeran’s song “Thinking Out Loud” were lifted from the Classical song made famous by Gaye without permissions.

  The said heirs sought share of profit from Sheeran’s song.

  The English musician testified that he writes most of his songs in a day and noted that he co-wrote “ Thinking Out Loud” with singer-songwriter Amy Wadge.

  A musicologist who testified for Ed Sheeran says in court documents that the four-chord sequence was used in a number of songs before Gaye’s hit came out.

  It was the second trial of Sheeran, who successfully testified in a London Court last April over his song “Shape of You.”

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