Plaintiff Kathryn Townsend Griffin left court and breezed by reporters smoking what appeared to be a cigarillo, saying only: "God is good all the time, all the time God is good." "No one owns them, or the way they are played, in the same way nobody owns the color blue." "They are a songwriter's 'alphabet', our tool kit." "These chords are common building blocks," Sheeran said Thursday. The pair wrote "Thinking Out Loud" at Sheeran's home in February 2014, he said.Ī musicologist retained by the defense told the court that the four-chord sequence in question was used in a number of songs before Gaye's hit came out in 1973. The English musician testified that he writes most of his songs in a day, and noted that he co-wrote "Thinking Out Loud" with singer-songwriter Amy Wadge, a regular creative collaborator. Sheeran, 32, spent days testifying with guitar in hand, playing demos for the court to prove the 1-3-4-5 chord progression that was in question is a basic building block of pop music that can't be owned. The jurors spent some three hours deliberating whether Sheeran's song and Gaye's classic are substantially similar and if their common elements are protected by copyright law. "I am not and will never allow myself to be a piggy bank for anyone to shake." "I am just a guy with a guitar who loves writing music for people to enjoy." "It is devastating and also insulting to be accused of stealing other people's songs when we put so much into our livelihoods," he added. "If the jury had decided this matter the other way, we might as well say goodbye to the creative freedom of songwriters," Sheeran told reporters outside the court. The heirs sought a share of the profits from Sheeran's hit tune.
The civil lawsuit was filed by heirs of Gaye co-writer Ed Townsend, who alleged that harmonic progressions and rhythmic elements of Sheeran's song were lifted without permission from the classic made famous by Gaye.
Outside, he told reporters he was "very happy" but "unbelievably frustrated that baseless claims like this" even make it to trial. The English musician stood and hugged his team inside a Manhattan federal courtroom after jurors ruled that he had "independently" created his 2014 song. State volunteers on the sidelines handed out water, but seemed largely to illustrate how the Kremlin was seeking to tap into deep-rooted emotions that remain somewhat beyond it.British pop phenom Ed Sheeran expressed joy and relief Thursday after a US jury found he did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" in composing his hit "Thinking Out Loud," and called the ruling good news for creative freedom. People explained at length and enthusiastically about the relatives whose pictures they were carrying.Ĭrowds of happy families moved down toward the Kremlin, listening to Soviet songs and cheering “Hurrah” when helicopters flew over.įew expressed much interest in politics or the military hardware that had passed through earlier, insisting instead the event was about gratitude and remembrance.
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Pro-Kremlin politicians have taken over the march’s organization in many cities and in some places have begun pushing students to carry placards with veterans unrelated to them.īut while many of those marching in Moscow had availed themselves of the free state-sponsored facilities to print off their relative’s portraits, there was little sign of coercion. Lapenkov lamented that the march was less about personal remembrance and more about a mass state ceremony.
"The column is turning into a ritual," Sergei Lapenkov, one of the marches' original organizers, told the Russian site.
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