Ed Sheeran did not infringe copyright with his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’. This is what the Manhattan jury determined during the trial in which the British singer-songwriter was accused of plagiarizing the song ‘Let’s Get It On’, by Marvin Gaye.

“I am very grateful that the jury found me not guilty,” the artist confessed as he left the court. And it is that he always denied the accusations and even went further: he assured the media that if he was found guilty he would leave music.

Specifically, they accused him of having used identical chords and to prove his innocence, he played and sang them at the trial. With all this controversy, the question can assail us:It’s easy to compose a song and make it look like another?

Paco Salazar, music producer, tells us that it is possible that there are many more songs with same chords and progressions to those of the two songs in question.

Similar rhythms that question creativity and lead to more and more complaints about plagiarism. The Spanish singer and music composer Ramoncín acknowledges to laSexta that all the urban and new music that is so successful they are made with machines and samplers that have come from other themes. That is why he believes that these situations are going to occur “much more than we would like.”

Artists like Quevedo or Shakira have already faced this type of accusation, and Ed Sheeran himself repeats for the second time. Last year he won another battle in London for his song ‘Shape of You’.