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Ed Sheeran\u00a0said in court this week that he\u2019s \u201cstopping\u201d his career if he loses a controversial\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0over his track \u201cThinking Out Loud.\u201d<\/p>\n
As noted in\u00a0a\u00a0New York Post<\/em> report, Sheeran made the remarks when discussing the larger impact the legal action \u2014 which alleges copyright infringement in connection with Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend\u2019s 1973 hit \u201cLet\u2019s Get It On\u201d \u2014 has had on him, both during the trial and beyond.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf that happens, I\u2019m done\u2014I\u2019m stopping,\u201d Sheeran\u00a0said\u00a0in a Manhattan courtroom\u00a0on Monday. \u201cI find it really insulting to work my whole life as a singer-songwriter and diminish it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Regardless of how one feels about the artistic merit of Sheeran\u2019s musical output, this lawsuit is an important one for several reasons.<\/p>\n\n
Chief among them, as many others have pointed out in the years since this lawsuit first made headlines roughly six years ago, is that the basis for the copyright infringement argument used in this suit\u00a0has been criticized\u00a0by some as a possible path that could be further abused in the future\u2014specifically, in the potential targeting of other songwriters.<\/p>\n
Notably, the family of the late Marvin Gaye\u00a0are not involved with this lawsuit. Instead, the legal battle was launched from the Townsend side of \u201cLet\u2019s Get It On.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ed Sheeran\u2019s legal team has argued that any similarities between the two songs are not intentional, and are instead merely an example of the frequent overlapping of song structure in popular music at large.<\/p>\n\n
Earlier into the case, Sheeran was reported to have\u00a0played guitar and sang\u00a0while making the aforementioned argument during testimony.<\/p>\n
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