Ed Sheeran’s co-writer has a tattoo of his copyright win judgement on her arm.
The Shape of You singer, 32, and his long-time collaborator Amy Wadge, 47, were accused of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On for their smash single Thinking Out Loud in a high-profile trial.
A New York jury exonerated them of the charge earlier this month.
Amy spoke openly about the trial’s toll on her, revealing she had the words “independently created” inscribed in a typewriter-style typeface on her left arm.
‘It’s been absolutely awful,’ she shared.
Speaking on BBC Radio Wales, Amy went on: ‘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.’
Wales-based Amy was in New York for a month while the court case was being heard, and both she and Ed strenuously refuted the claim of copyright infringement.
Amy also flaunted her new tattoos on Instagram last week.
She wrote: ‘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.’
Ed had faced a $100 million lawsuit launched by the heirs of Let’s Get It On co-writer Ed Townsend, but was exonerated on May 4 after a jury of three men and four women deliberated for less than three hours.
Ed’s lawyer stated that the lawsuit “should never have been brought,” and the singer stated that if convicted, he would be “done” with music.
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The estate of the late Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the 1973 R&B song with Marvin, filed the copyright action in 2018.
It said Ed and Amy ‘copied and exploited, without authorisation or credit’ the composition of Let’s Get It On by copying various elements, including its ‘melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bass line, backing chorus, tempo, syncopation and looping’.
The copyright infringement trial started on April 25 and taking the stand, Ed insisted: ‘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.’
