Ed Sheeran wins trial and it is determined that he did not plagiarize his hit “Thinking Out Loud”

A New York jury acquitted the British singer on Thursday Ed Sheeran for the accusation of partial plagiarism in a song of the theme “Let’s get it on”, after two weeks of trial in a federal court in Manhattan, reported the local press.

As the jury’s verdict was handed down, Ed Sheeran stood up and hugged his lawyers, who managed to convince the seven jurors that the chords of 2014’s “Thinking out loud” and its resemblance to the Marvin Gaye theme were a mere coincidence. He then turned to the jurors and thanked them out loud.

Sheeran had been denounced by the estate of Ed Townsend, co-author of the Marvin Gaye songin a lawsuit dating from 2017 and about which Sheeran went so far as to say that he would retire from music if the complainants won the case.

During the two weeks that the trial lasted, Ed Sheeran even took a guitar to interpret the controversial song before the jury, in a privileged acoustic performance with which he apparently managed to convince them that there had been no copy in the “progression of chords”.

The trial took place with just two weeks to go before the release of his new album and the start of a US tour as part of his “Mathematics” world tour.in which he avoided including a stop in New York.

Sheeran, who is promoting his album “=”, will give 21 concerts in the United States and Canada between May 6 (Arlington, Texas) and September 23 (Inglewood, California), with two forays into Canada, on June 17. (Toronto) and September 2 (Vancouver).

Sheeran included “Thinking Out Loud” on his “X” album, which has sold millions of copies. The singer already won another similar trial in the United Kingdom in March last year for violation of “copyright” in his song “Shape of you”.

On his Twitter account, the singer wrote last year: “The coincidence is bound to happen. If 60,000 songs are posted on Spotify every day, that’s 22 million songs a year. There are only 12 notes available.”

With information from EFE