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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Two songwriters are claiming that Ed Sheeran’s “Photograph” is a copy \u2014 and they’ve enlisted a legal team with a track record for proving just that.<\/p>\n

Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard have filed a $20 million copyright infringement lawsuit against the British singer-songwriter, whose 2014 hit they claim is largely a “note-for-note copying” of “Amazing,” a song they wrote in 2009 and recorded by X Factor<\/i> winner Matt Cardle in 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They have\u00a0have hired\u00a0attorney Richard Busch, who successfully represented Marvin Gaye’s family in the now-infamous “Blurred Lines” trial, which found Robin Thicke and\u00a0<\/span>Pharrell Williams guilty of copying Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.”\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LOS ANGELES \u2014 Two songwriters are claiming that Ed Sheeran’s “Photograph” is a copy \u2014 and they’ve enlisted a legal team with a track record for proving just that. Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard have filed a $20 million copyright … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3254,739,800],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}