Pop star Ed Sheeran faced the music again Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan. DaveCarlinTV has the latest on the singer's copyright case.
was back in a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, accused of stealing from a classic 1970s anthem to create a hit song for himself decades later.
But the family of Gaye's co-writer, Ed Townsend, says the two tracks have many"striking similarities" that go beyond coincidence.Elements of the Sheeran song were copied, said Townsend family attorney Ben Crump, and what Crump calls"smoking gun" evidence is video of Sheeran in concert, performing a mash-up of the two songs.
For most of the day Wednesday, a music expert for the defense lectured on basic building blocks of songwriting.Kathryn Townsend Griffin, Townsend's daughter and the lead plaintiff, told the court she admires Sheeran and"it didn't have to come to this" but she must protect her father's legacy. "There's this area that's sort of gray as to whether something is protectable or not ... He must be fairly confident in his position to take this to trial," she said."And it's being decided by a jury ... I can't predict how they're going to see this case and that's ultimately the test here.
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