Ed Sheeran is currently in court facing accusations that his song “Thinking Out Loud” copyrighted the legendary Marvin Gaye song “Let’s Get It On.”
While Sheeran’s lawyers have been unsuccessfully attempting to have the case dismissed for the past few months, he is now raising the stakes by threatening to completely stop making music if he is found guilty of copyright infringement.
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According to the New York Post, when the singer was asked what he would do if the plaintiffs won the case, he stated in frustration, “if that happens, I’m done. I’m stopping… I find it really insulting to work my whole life as a singer-songwriter and diminish it.”
The four-time GRAMMY Award winner has adamantly maintained that any similarities between his 2014 hit and Gaye’s 1973 song are coincidental and that they are too widespread to be considered copyright infringement. He allegedly “belted out various mashups of Van Morrison songs for the courtroom on Monday” in order to emphasize his argument, which presumably did not assist him as much as he had hoped.
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Structured Asset Sales, a company that has a portion of Ed Townsend’s copyrights—who co-wrote “Let’s Get It On”— filed the federal copyright infringement lawsuit back in 2018. Yet in September 2022, Judge Louis Stanton declared that Sheeran and Structured Asset Sales would have to present their cases in front of a jury, who would then determine if “Thinking Out Loud” indeed copyrighted “Let’s Get It On.”
The singer-songwriter made no mention of how the decision may affect his upcoming Mathematics Tour, but we guess time will tell!
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