The music industry is closely watching a copyright lawsuit filed by the family of producer-songwriter Ed Townsend, accusing Sheeran of copying part of Marvin Gaye’s hit “Let’s Get it On.” WATCH NIGHTLINE EPISODES: https://abc.go.com/shows/nightline ALSO AVAILABLE ON HULU: https://hulu.tv/2wSmSrZ #nightline #edsheeran #marvingaye #thinkingoutloud #copyright #abcnews
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I support artists and/or their families protecting their music by legally fighting for what is owed to them when their illectual property is used without their consent but I think the family of Marvin Gaye is reaching with this claim.
People are so greedy. The song is completely different.
Weird that this video didn’t mention that Sheeran admitted that Shape of you sampled the song No Scrubs, without permission from the writer. He had to pay Kandi Burruss.
This reminds me of the Pharrell Williams, Dave Grohl interview !!!
Wow his family sucks
George Harrison
The recent worst one I've heard was Ariana Grande's "7 Rings" copying Princess Nokia's "Mine", b/c she even took words too.
Seriously everybody wants a payout – it's ridiculous! We should be focusing our priorities on way more important things (IMO) like, oh, Idk maybe trying to prevent school shootings, riots, mental health care and still the recovery from COVID. But there will always be someone that wants more for themselves. Ed Sheeren is a great person with a kind soul and such artistry. He has not done anything with malicious intent. Greedy ppl. Smh
Once he settled with Tiny and Candy from Xscape, he put a target on his back. He is a victim of his own success. If this music didn't make money, no one would be coming for him.
Um…how can an artist be influenced by past artists then get accused of this? if you grew up playing certain cords together…you're gonna move them to your own work…this is weird…
Give me a damn break.
This is a disgrace to Marvin Gaye's lagacy… The family should not get a dime
How come we don't hear about Stairway to heaven from Led Zeppelin wich was a pretty similar case ?
How sad😢
Not even the original companies that signed these 2 artists never payed them their worth!! Why are the heirs not suing the original people and companies that ripped their peoples $$$$ why be so sue happy😢 music is made from the same chords, your people are dead! And they copied too! Where are the heirs of these whom yours copied from so they can sue you guys?! BS and may Ed not need to give a penny to anyone but his self! Because the ones suing did not help nor collaborate with Ed creative process
..Music comes from so many basic chords!!!! STOP THE INSANITY!!
Oh please let’s stop this crazy litigation to make money
There are 12 notes.
Completely different songs
Bro it’s just music. Don’t let greed take over. That’s all it’s about. Money. Not even the music.
8 bil people on earth
12 music notes
A band can easily improvise simple Melodies
constantly pushing simple music for relatability
Pop music
If this is the case then you literally can’t make music anymore… people are inspired by other people’s music.
Rubbish. Most popular songs use the same 3-4 chords. These are only alike in the most remote way. Same was for the Blurred Lines lawsuit. It's like a movie with a shootout and a car chase scene holds the rights to those and no other movie can have a shootout or a car chase.
This is just a money-grab for free.
Greedy family. Ed owes them nothing.
All this says to me is, "We want to squeeze out every dime by using the legacy of our dead relative".
Truth be told.. ED copied Marvin's song… Ed should just have acknowledged him.
So the owner of the song the one who created it its bo longer w us. But the family is profiting and feeling hurt over something they did not even break a sweat for.. they won one lawsuit now another.. how hard its for the artist to create music forbid w out knowing it sounds similar to another song… this is rridiculous every human gets inspire by something.. and artist maybe they get inspired by other songs.. i understand if they had copy the whole paragraph.. but damn i cant even tell in most of their songs.. they are all different and beautiful in their way and on their own lyrics.
Talentless otter.