Ed Sheeran's co-writer Amy Wadge celebrates by getting copyright trial verdict tattooed on arm

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15 May 2023, 17:26

Ed Sheeran’s long-time music collaborator Amy Wadge has celebrated their Marvin Gaye trial victory in a drastic way and had the copyright verdict inked on her arm.

The Shape of You singer, 32, and Wadge, 47, were in court in New York recently accused of copying Gaye's 1973 classic Let’s Get It On on their track Thinking Out Loud.

After being cleared of the $100million (£80million) copyright accusation, Ed's music maker friend has now had ‘independently created’ written in a typewriter font and tattooed on her arm.

Speaking about the month-long trial, she told BBC Radio Wales: "It’s been absolutely awful. To get to the moment when the jury came in and said we had independently created it... I now have that tattooed on my arm."

Posting her new ink addition on Instagram, she told followers: "Had to be done thank you @eldannydiablx for my new ink!

"Leaving New York and heading home to my family after three of the toughest weeks of my life but I’m so grateful for the love and support I’ve received and still on cloud nine about the verdict!

"Also special mention to my utterly amazing manager @goodpeoplemanagment who has literally held me up through it all #independentlycreated."

On May 4, the duo were cleared after jurors (three men and four women) found them not-guilty after a three-hour deliberation.

Ed’s lawyer said the case ‘should never have been brought’, and the singer said he would be ‘done’ with music if found guilty.

The copyright lawsuit was filed in 2018 by the estate of Gaye's late co-writing partner, Ed Townsend, who said Ed and Amy ‘copied and exploited, without authorisation or credit’ Let’s Get It On including its ‘melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bass line, backing chorus, tempo, syncopation and looping’.

Ed pleaded his innocence prior to the verdict and said: "If I had done what you are accusing me of doing, I would be quite an idiot to stand on a stage in front of 20,000 people and do that."

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