While Ben Crump, an attorney for Townsend, claimed that the video was “smoking gun” evidence of copyright violation, Sheeran’s attorney refuted this by explaining that mashups are a common practice in his performances. The copyright infringement lawsuit against Ed Sheeran continues to stir controversy as he denies allegations that his hit song “Thinking Out Loud” plagiarized Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” A key piece of evidence in the trial is a concert video from Zurich, where Sheeran was seen performing a mashup of the two songs. The melodies in question are “dramatically different” and only have “fragmentary similarities,” according to Ferrara the chord progression was in use before Let’s Get It On and the harmonic rhythm is “unremarkable.”.According to Lawrence Ferrara, an expert witness, the writers of “Thinking Out Loud” did not plagiarize “Let’s Get It On.”.No musicological evidence, according to a music expert testifying on behalf of the defense, suggests that Ed Sheeran and his writing partner plagiarized Let’s Get It On when they wrote Thinking Out Loud.Music expert says: “The writers of ‘Thinking Out Loud’ did not copy ‘Let’s Get It On,’”

NEW: Ed Sheeran is headed to jury trial after a federal judge refuses to end #copyright lawsuit claiming 'Thinking Out Loud' ripped off Marvin Gaye’s 'Let's Get It On.' /EPJ0lEEKoP When Farkas questioned her client about whether he had taken inspiration from Let’s Get It On when writing his song, he replied that he had not.Songs like I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton, as performed by Whitney Houston, or Can’t Help Falling in Love, as performed by Elvis Presley, would go nicely with Thinking Out Loud he then added. You could combine it with another love song if it’s a love song, Sheeran stated.He claimed that he used the mashups to “spice it up a bit” during performances, typically picking songs with comparable chord structures.He was happy to pick up a guitar from behind his witness chair whenever she asked him to demonstrate how he could switch from one song to another and back again, a process known as mashups.Ilene Farkas, Sheeran’s attorney, refuted Crump’s assertion by having her client perform a brief mini-concert for the jury on Monday.Ed Sheeran on Song Mashups during concerts

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