Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
Ed Sheeran did not rip off Let’s Get It On says jury in song-theft case
completemusicupdate.comEd Sheeran did not infringe the copyright in Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ when he wrote his 2014 song ‘Thinking Out Loud’.
Which I think we already knew, but now we have confirmation of that fact in a US courtroom. The jury deliberating on the latest high profile song-theft case yesterday quickly ruled in Sheeran’s favour.It was the estate of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote ‘Let’s Get It On’, that accused Sheeran of ripping off the earlier song when he created ‘Thinking Out Loud’.
They first sued for copyright infringement all the way back in 2016. Partly because of COVID-caused delays it took nearly seven years for the case to get to trial.
It took the jury just two and half hours to decide that there wasn’t a case for copyright infringement here.The Sheeran side argued throughout that there were similarities between ‘Let’s Get It On’ and ‘Thinking Out Loud’ simply because they were created using the same musical building blocks.In the words of Sheeran’s lawyer Ilene Farkas during closing arguments this week: “Ed Townsend did not create these basic musical building blocks.
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