What might have felt like double jeopardy has turned into a double win for Ed Sheeran, as the pop superstar prevailed in yet a second copyright infringement lawsuit filed over the song “Think…
, as the pop superstar prevailed in yet a second copyright infringement lawsuit filed over the song “Thinking Out Loud,.” The same judge who oversaw the previous case dismissed this additional suit on Tuesday before it ever got to trial.
In dismissing Structured Asset Sales’ suit, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton wrote, “It is an unassailable reality that the chord progression and harmonic rhythm in ‘Let’s Get It On’ are so commonplace, in isolation and in combination, that to protect their combination would give ‘Let’s Get It On’ an impermissible monopoly over a basic musical building block.”
In this third lawsuit, Structured Asset Sales is seeking to have the recordings of “Thinking Out Loud” compared, versus the compositions. In the case that was just heard by a jury, the two records were not played in court, as the case technically came down to how the songs compared as sheet music — not “feel.”
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