Wales-based singer/songwriter Amy Wadge has expressed her relief after 'eight years of sleepless nights' caused by the court case brought against Ed Sheeran for their song, Thinking Out Loud.
The heirs of Marvin Gaye brought a copyright case against Sheeran, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Publishing claiming they were owed money for copyright infringement of Gaye's iconic song, Let's Get It On.
Amy, who is based in Llantwit Fardre near Pontypridd, wrote the track with Sheeran at his home around a decade ago and has known the music superstar since he was 17, when they wrote Ed's EP Songs I Wrote With Amy.
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The writer, who also wrote the UK's Eurovision entry for 2022 - Spaceman by Sam Ryder - posted on Instagram about her relief. She said: "I've just stopped crying - it's hard to even explain how the last two weeks have felt but to go through it with my friend of 17 years has also been on of the greatest honours of my life.
"For songwriters, for creatives we have all won today. That song changed my life but today I realise it was way more important that I could have ever contemplated. Thank you to everyone who reached out I am now going to try and catch up on eight years of sleepless nights. The truth is really all there is to it."
Amy also shared a picture of her and Sheeran with the caption 'we won.' During the trial, which took part in Manhattan, New York, Sheeran performed parts of the song, while his lawyer, Ilene Farkas, told the court that the chords used were "basic musical building blocks that songwriters now and forever must be free to use, or all of us who love music will be poorer for it", reported the BBC.
After the success at the court, Ed Sheeran made a statement outside the building: "It looks like I'm not going to have to retire from my day job after all," he said. "But at the same time I am absolutely frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all.
"If the jury had decided this matter the other way we might as well say goodbye to the creative freedom of songwriters. I am not and will never allow myself to be a piggy bank for anyone to shake," he added.
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