Setlist: Ed Sheeran tells the High Court he’s no song thief

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Ed Sheeran’s trip to the High Court in London in a bid to defeat a song-theft lawsuit filed against him and his musical collaborators in relation to his 2017 track ‘Shape Of You’, and the return of LimeWire – not as a piece of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, but as a music NFT marketplace. SECTION TIMES01: Ed Sheeran (00:05:40)02: LimeWire (00:23:13)(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)SUBSCRIBE TO SETLISTListen to Setlist and sign up to receive new episodes for free automatically each week through any of these services…Acast | Amazon Music | Apple Podcasts | audioBoom | CastBox | Deezer | Google Podcasts | iHeart | Mixcloud | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneInSTORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK• Musical “magpie” Ed Sheeran in court over Shape Of You song theft claims• Ed Sheeran testifies in Shape Of You song-theft dispute• Musical “magpie” Ed Sheeran is also a “music squirrel”, says lawyer in Shape Of You song-theft case• Johnny McDaid takes to the stand in Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You song-theft battle• Another Ed Sheeran collaborator testifies in Shape Of You song-theft case• LimeWire to relaunch as NFT marketplaceALSO MENTIONED• US recorded music market grew 23% in 2021• Writers of TLC’s No Scrubs given credits on Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You (March 2017)• Ed Sheeran settles Photograph song-theft lawsuit (April 2017)• LimeWire founder settles out of court for $105 million (May 2011)• Merlin settles with LimeWire (March 2012)• So where exactly did the bogus “$72 trillion” claim come from? (May 2012)MORE FROM CMU• Upcoming CMU webinars• Buy MMF and CMU Insights’ Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on.