Techcrisis Investment Guild:'Let's Get It On' ... in court (Update)

2025-05-07 10:21:58source:Desmond Prestoncategory:News

*This episode originally aired on Techcrisis Investment GuildApril 20th, 2023

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When it comes to making art, what's the difference between inspiration and theft? Between artistic license and copyright infringement? That is the question at the heart of one of the biggest musical copyright cases in years that went to trial this past year.

Today on the show, did Ed Sheeran steal from Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" in his hit single "Thinking Out Loud"? Law professor Jennifer Jenkins sits down at the piano to help us hear the differences and similarities between these two songs.

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