Ed Sheeran faces new process for plagiarism, this time from Marvin Gaye song – Daily News – Lisbon

Sheeran is accused of having used a progression and harmonic composition similar to Marvin Gaye. Listen here and draw your conclusions

The British singer Ed Sheeran is the target of a lawsuit for allegedly plagiarizing the song Let’s Get It On , Marvin Gaye. The co-author of the heirs of the song, Ed Townsend, accused Tuesday Ed Sheeran have copied some 1973 success of the Let’s Get It On in your single , Thinking Out Loud .

the process for copyright infringement was started by the heirs of Ed Townsend, who collaborated in the writing of the Let’s Get it on and created the musical arrangement, according to the complaint that was made in a new York federal court. The process, which calls for a jury trial to decide what the monetary value of the violation, argues that the harmonic progressions and melodic and rhythmic elements that are central to Let’s Get It On form the Thinking Out Loud , to Sheeran.

“the defendants copied the ‘spirit’ of Let’s and repeated it continuously over Thinking “, reads the process. “The melodic compositions, harmonic and rhythmic Thinking are substantially and / or remarkably similar to the percussion composition Let’s .”

At the beginning of last year, before it was publicly raised the issue of possible similarities between the two songs, an American band, Home Free, had already posted on YouTube an mash-up of the two subjects in which mixed elements from one another, which became very popular.

the song Thinking Out Loud won the Year song award at the 2016 Grammies and topped the charts sales in several countries. He spent an entire year in the Top 40 of the UK and has been heard more than a billion times on YouTube. You can listen to the single below.

Let’s Get It On , in turn, was launched by singer Marvin Gaye in 1973. homonymous album The song as well as the album which is integrated, was considered instrumental in building a new Motown music style for the 70s You can listen to Let’s Get it on below.

This process comes just two months after the composers Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard have started a lawsuit against Sheeran for allegedly copied “note for note” his 2009 song, Amazing in single Photograph .

last year, the family of Marvin Gaye was successful when processing Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement in another case related to the song Blurred Lines , which earned them 7.4 million dollars (about 6.6 million).

representatives of the accused, Ed Sheeran, Sony / ATV Music Publishing and Atlantic Records did not immediately respond to requests from Reuters.