d Sheeran – uncrowned King of copyright lawsuits. In recent years, the singer has had to defend himself so often against accusations of plagiarism that yet another lawsuit hardly seems worth a headline. When it comes to the lawsuit started against him by Edward Townsend, however, things are different. Townsend had noted striking similarities between the classic „Let‘s Get it On“, which Townsend had written with Marvin Gaye in 1973, and Sheeran‘s „Thinking Out Loud“. After four tough years, the court ruled in Sheeran‘s favour, causing some in the alternative music press to rejoice. As online magazine Pitchfork put it: „Ed Sheeran Finally Seems Useful. It took a serial plagiarist to uphold creative freedom.“ [1] Yet the result hardly clears things up. And in the long run, it could rather pave the way for a final departure from the current copyright system than its
