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 To Stand Trial In $100M Copyright Case Over ‘Thinking Out Loud’
etcanada.comA federal judge has ordered Ed Sheeran to stand trial over accusations that his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud” ripped off Marvin Gaye’s iconic “Let’s Get It On”.
Billboard reports that Judge Louis Stanton denied a request by Sheeran’s lawyers to drop the case, which was first filed back in 2018; the judge was not swayed by the arguments of Sheeran’s attorneys that the suit was invalid because the various elements the singer-songwriter was alleged to have lifted from Gaye’s 1973 hit weren’t unique enough to covered by copyright. “There is no bright-line rule that the combination of two unprotectable elements is insufficiently numerous to constitute an original work,” the judge wrote in his ruling. “A work may be copyrightable even though it is entirely a compilation of unprotectable elements.” READ MORE: Ed Sheeran Accused Of Ripping Off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’, Jury To Decide $100-Million Lawsuit, Court Date Set The lawsuit was filed by an entity owned by music industry executive David Pullman called Structured Asset Sales, which owns a one-third stake in the copyrights of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote “Let’s Get It On” with Gaye.
The suit is seeking $100 million in damages. Some of Townsend’s other heirs filed a separate case involving their own respective stake in the song, which is now expected to go to trial eventually. READ MORE: Ed Sheeran Speaks Out On Copyright Lawsuit Victory: ‘You Can’t Settle’ This isn’t the first time that Sheeran has been hit with such charges; he recently defeated a similar lawsuit alleging he stole elements of another song for his 2017 track “Shape of You”.
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