Ed Sheeran wins another song-theft legal battle - a podcast by Complete Music Update (CMU)

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Ed Sheeran’s victory in another high-profile headline-grabbing song-theft legal battle – this time over whether or not he ripped off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ when he wrote his 2014 song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ – plus two sets of proposals for better regulating the sale of tickets put forward in US Congress late last month and another industry-led campaign launched last week that says it will advocate for “a ticketing experience better than the nightmare many fans and artists currently navigate”.



SECTION TIMES

01: Ed Sheeran (00:05:36)

02: US tickets (00:18:52)

(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)



STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK

• Non-idiot (allegedly) Ed Sheeran testifies on first day of Thinking Out Loud song-theft trial

• Ed Sheeran gets his guitar out in court as song-theft case continues

• Ed Sheeran calls musicologist’s actions “criminal” in Thinking Out Loud song-theft trial

• Ed Sheeran losing will remove “an essential element in every songwriter’s toolkit”, argues lawyer in song-theft case

• Ed Sheeran did not rip off Let’s Get It On says jury in song-theft case

• Live Nation responds to proposed new ticketing regulations in the US



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