Ed Sheeran's Copyright Victory and Its Implications for Songwriters
TL;DR
A jury has found that Ed Sheeran did not copy parts of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" for his own song "Thinking Out Loud," ending a case that has been playing out over several years. However, the current laws fail to account for how most contemporary pop music is currently made, and popular songwriters and pop stars remain attractive targets for lawsuits of this kind, which give potential plaintiffs at least a small chance at a huge payoff, deserved or not.
- Ed Sheeran Is Vindicated, But Other Copyright Battles Rage On The New York Times
- How Ed Sheeran Won His Copyright Trial BuzzFeed
- Sting weighs in on the Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud case and why he's not worried about AI songwriting: "It's soul work, and machines don't have souls" MusicRadar
- What Ed Sheeran's copyright court case win means for songwriters in future The Conversation
- Ed Sheeran Explains (on Guitar) How He Won His Copyright Suit The Daily Beast
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