Ed Sheeran Free of Plagiarism: Jury Rules No Guilt

After a process that lasted almost seven years, the Manhattan Federal Courtin New York, United States, decided in favor of the British singer Ed Sheeran in the fight for music copyrights “Thinking Out Loud“, released in 2014 and one of the artist's biggest hits. In 2017, the musician's heirs Ed Townsend filed a lawsuit against Sheeran alleging that the musician had stolen the “harmonic progressions and melodic and rhythmic elements“of music”Let's Get It On“, from 1978, a song that Townsend composed for the singer Marvin Gaye.

In October 2015, “Thinking Out Loud” made history by joining the Guinness World Records like the song that had”longest climb to the top of the British chart“. The hit also reached 2nd position in the Billboard Hot 100list of the hundred most listened to songs of the week published by the American magazine billboard.

_{Video for “Thinking Out Loud” (Reproduction/YouTube/Ed Sheeran)}

According to the newspaper New York Postduring a statement this Monday (1), Sheeran even made mashups of the singer's songs van morrisonalso playing the chord sequence he was accused of plagiarizing while singing versions of Morrison's works, such as “Crazy Love” and “Tupelo Honey“. To the newspaper, the interpreter of “Give Me Love” stated that, if he lost the case, he would abandon his musical career.

According to the British tabloid DailyMaildue to mandatory attendance at the process hearings, Ed even missed his own grandmother's funeral. “I am very sad that our son Edward cannot attend today. He is very upset that he cannot be present – he has to be thousands of miles away in a courtroom in America to defend his integrity“, he stated John SheeranEd's father, at the funeral.

On his official Instagram account, Sheeran wrote: “It's all over, now it's time to get back to what I love to do. I love you all“. The singer's fifth studio album, titled “–” (“Substrate“), will be available for streaming tomorrow, Friday (5), on all digital platforms.

Featured Photo: Ed Sheeran. Reproduction/Criticism