Pagzaa and one other man were seen storming the studio of Dagbon Radio. In a video circulating on social media, Mr. Sadiq Gariba was attacked during a live radio programme on May 5, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. The Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) has condemned the alleged assault on a radio presenter with Tamale-based Dagbon FM, Sadiq Gariba, by a former Northern Regional Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hardi Pagzaa. In 2015 Gaye’s heirs won a $5.3m judgment from a lawsuit claiming the Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams song Blurred Lines copied Gaye’s Got to Give It Up.ĭISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.

Sheeran is also facing claims over Thinking Out Loud from a company owned by investment banker David Pullman that holds copyright interests in the Gaye song. Last year Sheeran won a copyright battle at the High Court in London over his 2017 Shape of You. “Mr Sheeran is counting on you to be very, very overwhelmed by his commercial success,” she said, urging jurors to use their “common sense” to decide whether the songs are similar. Keisha Rice, who represented the heirs of Gaye’s co-writer Ed Townsend said her clients were not claiming to own basic musical elements but rather “the way in which these common elements were uniquely combined.” “These are 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,” she said. Sheeran’s lawyer, Ilene Farkas, told the jurors that similarities in the chord progressions and rhythms of the two songs were “the letters of the alphabet of music.” He said he wrote the song at home in England with his friend Amy Wadge and had been inspired by his grandparents and a new romantic relationship he had just begun. Kathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of composer Ed Townsend, accuses Sheeran of copyright infringement (Getty Images)ĭuring the civil trial, Sheeran sang and played parts of Thinking Out Loud on the guitar. Sheeran reportedly stood up and hugged his team after jurors ruled that he “independently” created his song. “If that happens, I’m done, I’m stopping,” he said when asked about the toll the trial at Manhattan federal court was taking on him.

Sheeran reportedly told the trial in New York that if he was found guilty he would give up his music career. Heirs of Gaye’s co-writer argued that Sheeran, Warner Group and Sony Publishing owed them money for copyright infringement. The British singer-songwriter had denied stealing elements of the song for his 2014 worldwide hit. Ed Sheeran did not copy Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On when composing Thinking Out Loud, a US court has ruled.

The Boy from Boadua by Patrick Asare