• Ed Sheeran will go on trial in a $100 million copyright infringement case.
• The dispute with the co-author, Ed Townsend, began in 2016. Townsend’s family also filed a lawsuit against the artist over Let’s Get It On.
• He has argued that there is no “bright-line rule” for what constitutes original work.

Ed Sheeran has just been given the all-ahead to go on trial in a $100 million copyright infringement case.

He began by outlining the lack of any sort of “bright-line rule,” adding that a jury would be responsible for coming to a conclusion.

He wrote, “There is no bright-line rule that the combination of two unprotectable elements is insufficiently numerous to constitute an original work.”

“A work may be copyrightable even though it is entirely a compilation of unprotectable elements.”

For those who are unaware, this dispute with the co-author, Ed Townsend, began in 2016.

After selling a third of their shares to Structured Asset Sales for $100 million that same year, Townsend’s family also filed a lawsuit against the artist over Let’s Get It On.

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