Ed Sheeran is being sued for allegedly copying Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get it On’ in his 2014 Grammy-winning song ‘Thinking Out Loud.’ Here’s how it turned out for some o…
Some of the most high-profile copyright infringement cases happen in the music industry, where the accusation of plagiarism is as nebulous as a concept can get. It happens sometimes by accident — an “unconscious borrowing” — and other times it’s on purpose, deemed a “musical homage.”
The plaintiffs first filed the civil suit against Sheeran in 2017 and are being represented by a legal team including civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump. The trial is expected to last up to two weeks. “Blurred Lines,” the Grammy-nominated collaboration between Robin Thicke, Pharrell Wiliams and TI, was at the crux of the cultural zeitgeist when the song was released in 2013 alongside a music video featuring topless supermodels . It was also the target of Marvin Gaye’s estate who claimed that the track ripped off the soul singer’s 1977 hit “Got To Give It Up.”
“It’s bad for music because we’ve had an understanding of what a song is, and now, based on that one case, there’s a question of what a song is,” Rubin added. “It’s not what it used to be in the past, because in the past it would be the chords, the melody and the words. It leaves us as music-makers in a really uncomfortable place making things, because we don’t know what you can do”.“My Sweet Lord” was the first solo hit from a Beatle and was the top-selling U.K.
The claims were brought to court on two separate occasions: once in 2014 when Led Zeppelin was found not guilty, and again when it was re-opened in 2018 after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the judge had made several process errors in the original trial, which led to a new hearing being ordered.
In May of 1978, Selle heard the song on the radio and confused it for his own melody, but quickly noticed the song had different lyrics. He sued Maurice, Robin, and Barry Gibb , alleging copyright infringement, and additionally accused their record label distributor Polygram and Paramount Pictures of misappropriation and copyright infringement.
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