As the jury answered the single question of whether Sheeran proved he didn't infringe upon the copyright in the affirmative, the crooner briefly put his hands over his face in relief before standing and hugging his lawyer. 9News
At the trial's start, lawyer Ben Crump told jurors on behalf of the Townsend heirs that Sheeran himself sometimes performed the two songs together.
The English pop star's cheerful attitude on display under questioning from his attorney, Ilene Farkas, all but vanished under cross examination. Sheeran's song, which came out in 2014, was a hit, winning a Grammy for song of the year. His lawyers argued that the songs shared versions of a similar and unprotectable chord progression freely available to all songwriters.
He had been a Motown superstar since the 1960s, although his songs released in the 1970s made him a generational musical giant., was a singer, songwriter and lawyer who died in 2003.
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