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Accused of plagiarism, court rules on Ed Sheeran

2024-11-03 22:45:00, Lifestyle CNA

Accused of plagiarism, court rules on Ed Sheeran

The US Court of Appeals ruled that the artist did not infringe the copyright of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On".

Sheeran was first accused of music plagiarism in 2016 by the family of Let's Get It On co-writer Ed Townsend. That lawsuit was dismissed in 2017, but was followed in 2018 by another lawsuit filed by Structured Asset Sales, a company that owns a portion of the proceeds of the 1973 song, alleging that Sheeran copied the chord progression of Gaye.

The court ruled that the two songs shared only "basic musical building blocks" and in the ruling, the judges stated that the four-chord progression and syncopated rhythm present in Sheeran's song are elements commonly used in pop music and therefore, cannot meet the originality requirements of copyright law.





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