New York (EFE) reported the local press.
As the jury’s verdict was handed down, Ed Sheeran stood up and hugged his lawyers, who managed to convince the seven jurors that the chords of 2014’s “Thinking out loud” and its resemblance to the Marvin Gaye theme were a mere coincidence.
He then turned to the members of the jury and thanked them out loud.
Controversial song
Sheeran had been sued by the estate of Ed Townsend, co-author of the Marvin Gaye song, in a lawsuit dating back to 2017, in which Sheeran even said that he would retire from music if the plaintiffs won the case.
During the two weeks that the trial lasted, Ed Sheeran even took a guitar to interpret the controversial song before the jury, in a privileged acoustic performance with which he apparently managed to convince them that there had been no copy in the “progression of chords”.
The trial took place with just two weeks to go before the release of his new album and the start of a tour of the United States as part of his “Mathematics” world tour, in which he avoided including a stop in New York.
Sheeran, who is promoting his album “=”, will give 21 concerts in the United States and Canada between May 6 (Arlington, Texas) and September 23 (Inglewood, California), with two forays into Canada, on June 17. (Toronto) and September 2 (Vancouver).
The singer already won another similar trial in the United Kingdom in March last year for violation of “copyright” in his song “Shape of you”.
On his Twitter account, the singer wrote last year: “The coincidence is bound to happen. If 60,000 songs are posted on Spotify every day, that’s 22 million songs a year. There are only 12 notes available.”