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	Podcast:		Setlist
	Episode:		Ed Sheeran tells the High Court he’s no song thief
	Category:		Music
	Duration:		00:32:24
	Publish Date:		2022-03-14 07:00:00
	Description:		CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Ed Sheeran's trip to the High Court in London in a bid to defeat a song-theft lawsuit filed against him and his musical collaborators in relation to his 2017 track 'Shape Of You', and the return of LimeWire - not as a piece of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, but as a music NFT marketplace. SECTION TIMES 01: Ed Sheeran (00:05:40) 02: LimeWire (00:23:13) (Timings may be slightly different due to adverts) STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK • Musical “magpie” Ed Sheeran in court over Shape Of You song theft claims • Ed Sheeran testifies in Shape Of You song-theft dispute • Musical “magpie” Ed Sheeran is also a “music squirrel”, says lawyer in Shape Of You song-theft case • Johnny McDaid takes to the stand in Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You song-theft battle • Another Ed Sheeran collaborator testifies in Shape Of You song-theft case • LimeWire to relaunch as NFT marketplace ALSO MENTIONED • US recorded music market grew 23% in 2021 • Writers of TLC’s No Scrubs given credits on Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You (March 2017) • Ed Sheeran settles Photograph song-theft lawsuit (April 2017) • LimeWire founder settles out of court for $105 million (May 2011) • Merlin settles with LimeWire (March 2012) • So where exactly did the bogus “$72 trillion” claim come from? (May 2012) MORE FROM CMU • Upcoming CMU webinars • Buy MMF and CMU Insights’ Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon • Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news bulletin
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