Thinking Out Loud or Not Thinking At All?
Looks like artists these days are paying homage to Marvin Gaye in a sneaky underhanded kind of way - by creating derivatives of his artistic works without acknowledging him when credit where it’s due. We saw how Robin Thicke (among others) was forced to pay $7.4 million in an infringement lawsuit for misappropriating Gaye’s work in Thicke’s hit song “Blurred Lines”. Fast forward today, we have Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud’ with a melody and chord progression strikingly sim


Thinking Out Loud or Not Thinking At All?
Looks like artists these days are paying homage to Marvin Gaye in a sneaky underhanded kind of way - by creating derivatives of his artistic works without acknowledging him when credit where it’s due. We saw how Robin Thicke (among others) was forced to pay $7.4 million in an infringement lawsuit for misappropriating Gaye’s work in Thicke’s hit song “Blurred Lines”. Fast forward today, we have Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud’ with a melody and chord progression strikingly sim