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What might have felt like double jeopardy has turned into a double win for\u00a0Ed Sheeran, as the pop superstar prevailed in yet a second copyright infringement lawsuit filed over the song \u201cThinking Out Loud.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same judge who oversaw the previous case dismissed this additional suit on Tuesday before it ever got to trial.<\/p>\n
This like-minded lawsuit had been filed by Structured Asset Sales LLC, another party with an interest in the 1973 Marvin Gaye hit \u201cLet\u2019s Get It On,\u201d similarly contendingg that Sheeran\u2019s 2014 smash infringed on the previous song\u2019s copyright.<\/p>\n
The company owns part of songwriter Ed Townsend\u2019s share of the Gaye tune; it was the heirs of Townsend who filed the previous unsuccessful lawsuit.<\/p>\n
The result was much the same, with or without a trial, with the elements shared by the two tunes being judged \u201ccommon.\u201d<\/p>\n
In dismissing Structured Asset Sales\u2019 suit, U.S. District Judge\u00a0Louis Stanton wrote, \u201cIt is an unassailable reality that the chord progression and harmonic rhythm in \u2018Let\u2019s Get It On\u2019 are so commonplace, in isolation and in combination, that to protect their combination would give \u2018Let\u2019s Get It On\u2019 an impermissible monopoly over a basic musical building block.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stanton had previously ruled that the Structured Asset Sales lawsuit should be heard by a jury, but he reversed himself in dismissing it Tuesday, likely influenced by the speed with which a panel of jurors found Sheeran not liable in the previous case, after just a few hours of deliberation on May 4.<\/p>\n
Reuters reported\u00a0that Sheeran is not yet clear of \u201cThinking Out Loud\u201d court cases, however, as Structured Asset Sales has one more lawsuit still pending the court system over the contested song.<\/p>\n
In this third lawsuit, Structured Asset Sales is seeking to have the recordings of \u201cThinking Out Loud\u201d compared, versus the compositions.<\/p>\n
In the case that was just heard by a jury, the two records were not played in court, as the case technically came down to how the songs compared as sheet music \u2014 not \u201cfeel.\u201d<\/p>\n
The owner of Structured Asset Sales is investment banker David Pullman, famous for his \u201cBowie Bonds.\u201d He sued Sheeran, Warner Group and Sony Publishing five years ago, several years after the Townsend heirs filed their separate suit.<\/p>\n
Pullman told Reuters that he believes having the recordings of \u201cLet\u2019s Get It On\u201d and \u201cThinking Out Loud\u201d played in court will make the difference for a jury, in this third and (maybe?) final suit: \u201cTheir biggest fear, in terms of everything they\u2019ve filed, has been to prevent the sound recording from coming in,\u201d the banker said.<\/p>\n
In an\u00a0interview with\u00a0Variety<\/em>\u00a0earlier this month after the jury\u2019s verdict in the previous case, Ilene Farkas, the lead attorney from Pryor Cashman, which handled Sheeran\u2019s defence, said, \u201cHe is certainly thrilled about the decision.<\/p>\nHe feels vindicated, but he feels not only vindicated for himself but for all songwriters.<\/p>\n
There have been many, many, many songwriters who reached out to him during this trial in support of what he was doing, and so he felt a tremendous obligation. That\u2019s a big weight on your shoulders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were dozens and dozens of strangers who reached out to\u00a0me<\/em>, just songwriters and professors of musicology, and just consumers of music who all were in support of Ed and the impact that this case was going to have potentially on songwriting.\u201d<\/p>\nFarkas reiterated that Sheeran felt it was important to take these cases to trial if need be, and not give in and quietly settle the cases, as so many songwriters have in past instances. \u201cAs he said in his statement, this has to stop. I think he meant those words.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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