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Ed Sheeran performs on NBC's
"Today" at the NBC's TODAY Show on July 4, 2014 in New York, New
York.
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The lawsuit over Sheeran's monster hit
"Photograph" is filed by the same attorney who repped the Marvin Gaye
family in the "Blurred Lines" copyright case.
Ed Sheeran’s “Photograph” is just
another hit next to “Thinking Out Loud”, even Keith Urban admits to be amazed
with its tune craft. However, Sheeran’s big hit from last summer will now reach
the federal judge’s ears too because it was alleged in a new $20 million
lawsuit saying that it is a “note-for-note copying.”
The suing songwriters, Martin
Harrington and Thomas Leonard, along with their publishing company HaloSongs,
say Sheeran’s “Photograph” derives from their 2009 work, “Amazing”, which was
recorded and released as a single by Matt Cardle, the 2010 winner of The X Factor.
The lawsuit attempts to make the case
that “Photograph,” which Sheeran said in an interview “will be the one that
will change his career path” and reached No.1 on the Billboard US Adult Top 40 chart in May 2015, is too similar to both
the composition written by Harrington and Leonard as well as the recorded
version by Cardle. In particular, there’s the chorus, which according to the
complaint shares 39 identical notes—about 70 percent—in pitch, rhythm duration
and placement in the measure.
Sheeran, who was crowned as the top
musical act in the U.S. last summer Billboard,
will now have to answer these charges along with “Photograph” credited
co-writer Johnny McDaid, Sony/ATV Songs, Warner Music and other including the
recently sold Polar Patrol Music Publishing, each named as co-defendants.
Source: Billboard
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