Ed Sheeran acquitted of plagiarism

A New York jury acquitted British singer Ed Sheeran of partial plagiarism in the song “Let’s get it on” after a two-week trial in Manhattan federal court, local media reported.

As the jury delivered its verdict, Ed Sheeran stood up and hugged his lawyers, who managed to convince the seven jurors that the chords of 2014’s “Thinking out loud” and its similarity to Marvin Gaye’s theme song were mere coincidence.

Then he went to members of the jury and thanked them loudly.

A controversial song

Sheeran was accused by the heirs Ed Townsendco-writer of Marvin Gaye’s song, in a lawsuit dating back to 2017 in which Sheeran went so far as to say he would withdraw from music, music if it is the appellants they won the case.

During the two weeks that the trial lasted, Ed Sheeran He came to take the guitar to interpret the subject of the song in front of the jury polemicsin privileged acoustic performance by which he apparently managed to convince them that there was no duplication in the “chord progression”.

The trial took place only two weeks after its publication new album and the beginning of a tour of the USA in his world tour “Mathematics”in which he avoided including a stop in New York.

Sheeran, who is promoting his album “=”, will perform 21 concerts in the United States and Canada between May 6 (Arlington, Texas) and September 23 (Inglewood, California), with two forays into Canada on June 17 (Toronto). and September 2 (Vancouver).

The singer already received another similar trial in March last year United Kingdom per rape “copyright” in his song “Shape of you”.

Last year, the singer wrote on his Twitter: “The coincidence will definitely happen. If 60,000 songs are published on Spotify every day, that’s 22 million songs per year. Only 12 notes are available.”