Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone, Music Now.

So following a trial that saw Ed Sheer and sing and play guitar from the witness stand,

a federal jury in New York ruled Thursday, May 4th, that Ed did not infringe the copyright of

Barvangays Let's Get It On with his own song, Thinking Out Loud, which he co-wrote with

Amy Wadge, though she wasn't named in the suit.

Here's some of what Ed had to say to the press

after the verdict.

I'm obviously very happy with the outcome of the case

and it looks like I'm not having to retire for my day job after all.

But at the same time, I'm unbelievably frustrated theist claims like this are allowed to go to court at all.

We've spent the last eight years talking about two songs with dramatically different lyrics,

melodies and four chords which are also different and used by songwriters every day all over the world.

These chords are common building blocks which were used to create music long before

let's get it on was written and will be used to make music long after we are all gone.

They are in a songwriter's alphabet, our toolkit and should be there for all of us to use.

No one owns them or the way they are played in the same way that nobody owns the color blue.

Unfortunately, unfounded claims like this are being fueled by individuals who are offered as

music experts in musical analysis.

In this instant the other side's musicologists left

out words and notes presented simple and different pitches as melody and by doing so created what

I think we proved for all to see were misleading comparisons and disinformation

to find supposed to limit similarities where none exist.

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