VIDEOS – The British pop star is being sued because his hit Thinking Out Loud looks a little too much to the song Let’s Get It it the legendary American soul singer.
Bad surprise for Ed Sheeran who finds himself pursued again for plagiarism. “The melody, harmony and rhythm composition of Thinking Out Loud look substantially, even striking composition for battery Let’s Get It On ,” can -on read the complaint filed Aug. 9 in federal court in New York.
The heirs of Ed Townsend who co-wrote the tube with Marvin Gaye, accuse Ed Sheeran to be a little too inspired to compose his own song.
The complainants said the British singer had ignored their warnings and had even sung Let’s Get it on in concert. Thus, a video available on YouTube shows Ed Sheeran singing Thinking Out Loud then move to iconic as Marvin Gaye, during a concert in 2014 in Zurich.
the heirs of Ed Townsend hope to convince jurors to prevent the British singer to interpret his ballad became a classic in weddings, as well as to determine the amount of damages.
Sheeran, who is quoted as staff in the complaint, as his label and his record, has yet to respond to the complaint. This is not the first time that the singer is facing justice. Last June, Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard, authors of Amazing sung by Matt Cardle, already accused of plagiarism for his song Photograph .
They also hired the lawyer who helped the family of Marvin Gaye won over $ 7 million (later reduced to 2 million) last year after attacking and Pharrell Williams Robin Thicke for the title Blurred Lines.
more recently, a Los Angeles jury found that Stairway to Heaven , probably the most famous song Led Zeppelin did not copy a piece of the Californian group Spirit. The legendary British quartet ballad was the subject of a complaint filed two years ago by Michael Skidmore, manager of the estate of the Spirit guitarist Randy California.
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