Ed Sheeran cried happy tears after winning plagiarism court case

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Ed Sheeran shed happy tears this week after winning his plagiarism case, which fought allegations that he ripped off part of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 song, Let’s Get It On, for his 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud.The singer, 32, who has battled and won court cases similar before, spoke spoke outside of a US courthouse while explaining his joy yet 'frustration' over the situation.

Going on for years now, it was back in 2017 that singer Kathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of Ed Townsend, one of the co-writers on the Marvin Gaye track, filed a lawsuit against him in 2017.

Giving a statement following the victory, Ed joked: "It looks like I'm not going to have to retire from my day job after all," before getting more serious and sharing: "But at the same time, I'm unbelievably frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court." Ed, whose grandmother recently died, went on to point out that the songs were 'completely different' as he explained that they only had chords in common, which he describes as 'a songwriters toolkit, there for us all to use, in the same way that nobody owns the colour blue'.

While Amy Wadge, the co-writer of Thinking Out Loud, said it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulder. Following the verdict, she told CNN: "It was just the most unbelievable relief and like seven years of stress just leaving my body, adding that she and Ed ‘had a few tears’ of relief.