Im so mad about the new lawsuit, it doesnt make any sense bc Thinking Out Loud and lets get it on dont even sound the same, I bet they only sued bc they saw him getting sued by those other guys
I agree that Thinking Out Loud doesn’t seem to infringe on Let’s Get It On, and any similarities there may be are simply due to the songs being in similar genres – sort of like how all pop songs have certain things in common, and all 90′s alternative rock songs have certain things in common, and all dub step has certain things in common. If particular groups of songs didn’t have any common elements there would be no such thing as genre in the first place. You can always tell when you’re listening to rap, right? You can always tell when you’re listening to bluegrass. But that certainly doesn’t mean all rap songs are the same or all bluegrass songs are the same. (Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think Thinking Out Loud and Let’s Get It On aren’t really even in the same genre, but I still believe they share no more common elements than songs in the same genre do, if that makes sense.)
Anyway, yes, I’m also quite disgusted by this lawsuit.
As far as the Townsend estate suing because they saw Ed is also being sued over his song Photograph, I’m not sure that’s the case. Apparently they’ve been crying copyright since April of last year, and the claim just hasn’t been filed until now. Notably, April was just a month after the end of the Blurred Lines trial, so I think a more likely scenario is that they decided to try to get money from Ed (and Amy, and Jake, etc.) because they saw the Gaye family was able to get money from Pharrell and Robin Thicke under similar ridiculous circumstances.
The more I read about the Blurred Lines trial, the more I believe Robin Thicke screwed himself over with his weird testimony. Like, he actually said he intentionally wanted the song to sound like the Marvin Gaye one? Why on earth would you say that if you’re being sued for copyright infringement? But there’s zero reason to believe Ed and Amy were setting out to intentionally try and write a song that sounded like Let’s Get It On, or that they specifically listened to it for inspiration or anything like that, so as long as they let the song speak for itself and don’t bizarrely say something to shoot themselves in the foot like that guy did, I believe they have a chance to win this one. I feel like any rational person with an interest in creativity would see that this claim is a joke. And hey, the Blurred Lines case is in appeal, so maybe a new outcome can be reached and everyone can just calm down with the civil suits.
