Ilene Farkas, Donald Zakarin and their team did a lot to ease the nerves of modern music makers last week when they convinced Manhattan jurors that Sheeran’s Grammy-winning song “Thinking Out Loud” did not copy “Let’s Get It On,” the Marvin Gaye hit written by Ed Townsend.
May 11, 2023 at 07:30 AM
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In the music copyright world, the 2015 jury verdict finding Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” infringed the copyright to Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” was about as consequential as it gets. The verdict, which was ultimately upheld by the Ninth Circuit and resulted in Thicke and co-writer Pharrell Williams being ordered to pay $5 million to the Gaye estate, set the music industry on edge.
Would “Blurred Lines” inspire a wave of follow-on claims?
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Ed Sheeran arrives at the Manhattan Federal Court on April 25, 2022. Photo: Ryland West/ALM
