In his testimony Tuesday (April 25) in federal court in Manhattan, singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran insisted that he did not write a successful song for himself by ripping off a well-known Marvin Gaye hit from the 1970s. The celebrity entered the federal courthouse in Manhattan while remaining silent to defend his 2014 Grammy award-winning song, “Thinking Out Loud.” The lawsuit asserts that Sheeran plagiarized many aspects of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit song “Let’s Get It On,” including the rhythm and chord pattern. Famed attorney Ben Crump represents the heirs of Ed Townsend, who wrote the song with Gaye. Crump presented a fan video of Sheeran singing “Let’s Get It On” during a concert which Sheeran said it was “quite simple to weave in and out of songs” that are in the same key, adding, “I’d be an idiot to stand on a stage in front of 20,000 people and do that.” Ed Sheeran previously won a copyright infringement case involving “Shape of You.” Do you think he will win this case as well?
