The global superstar faced similar claims of copyright infringement last year at the High Court in London, but he emerged victorious. Here the PA news agency takes a closer look at the British superstar’s latest legal battle. The family of Ed Townsend, the co-writer of the 1973 soul classic, claimed that Sheeran’s 2014 song bore “striking similarities” to Gaye’s track and that Sheeran had copied “substantial parts of it”. Jurors found that Sheeran and Wadge had “independently created” Thinking Out Loud and had not infringed on the copyright of Gaye’s song. Last year he spoke out about a “damaging” culture of “unwarranted” legal claims against songwriters, after winning a similar High Court copyright battle over his track Shape Of You.

Source: The Times May 05, 2023 01:39 UTC