Ed Sheeran tells the High Court he’s no song thief - a podcast by Complete Music Update (CMU)

from 2022-03-14T07:00

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CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Ed Sheeran's trip to the High Court in London in a bid to defeat a song-theft lawsuit filed against him and his musical collaborators in relation to his 2017 track 'Shape Of You', and the return of LimeWire - not as a piece of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, but as a music NFT marketplace.

SECTION TIMES

01: Ed Sheeran (00:05:40)

02: LimeWire (00:23:13)

(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)

STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK

• Musical “magpie” Ed Sheeran in court over Shape Of You song theft claims

• Ed Sheeran testifies in Shape Of You song-theft dispute

• Musical “magpie” Ed Sheeran is also a “music squirrel”, says lawyer in Shape Of You song-theft case

• Johnny McDaid takes to the stand in Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You song-theft battle

• Another Ed Sheeran collaborator testifies in Shape Of You song-theft case

• LimeWire to relaunch as NFT marketplace

ALSO MENTIONED

• US recorded music market grew 23% in 2021

• Writers of TLC’s No Scrubs given credits on Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You (March 2017)

• Ed Sheeran settles Photograph song-theft lawsuit (April 2017)

• LimeWire founder settles out of court for $105 million (May 2011)

• Merlin settles with LimeWire (March 2012)

• So where exactly did the bogus “$72 trillion” claim come from? (May 2012)

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