this is nightline tonight copyright clash the major music trial involving ed sheeran's grammy winning hit thinking out loud, we'll be loving you till doesn't sound too much like marvin gaye's we're all sensitive people. let's get it on. so you why the lawsuit could rock the music industry? this could absolutely open the floodgates. plus bad cinderella, a timeless classic with a modern twist. tommy dancing door and our backstage pass to andrew lloyd webber's latest creation, the star, with her own cinderella story, jumping from banking to broadway, it's still

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song copy written for justice ingredients? how are you feeling, e himself in attendance back up. will your eyes still smile from your cheeks, darling, i, i i've been really dry. i baby for 2 lawsuit accuses the british pop star of lifting parts of marvin gaye's 1973 soul classic let's get it on. sheeran is being sued by the heirs of the late ed townsend, who co-wrote the song with gaye, claiming sheeran should share the wealth from his 2014 track. townsend attorney claiming the defendant copied the heart of luts and repeated it continuously throughout thinking, alleging the melodic harmonic and rhythmic compositions of thinking are substantially and or strikingly similar. just the players make it a big case, but the uniqueness of the arguments that

it is the melody and these chords that could be copyrighted make it even bigger. sheeran's lawyers arguing musical building blocks like chords are frequently used in fair game for any artist, this is an extremely significant case because it asks the question whether or not the building blocks of a song can be copyright, and not just for this song, but potentially all songs that use two or 3 or 4 chords of a previous song. today in court , attorney ben crump, who represents the towson family, said plaintiffs have a smoking gun pointing to concert footage of sheeran in zurich, switzerland, in 2014. he reading the two songs together. what his attorneys will tell you is that the songs sound similar, but they only sound similar because they share these sort of commonplace musical elements. so they say, you know, this is this this looks bad for us, but it's really not the smoking gun that it's been made out to be.

sheeran said. listen, if i did what you're accusing me of, how much of an idiot would i be if i got up on stage in front of 20,000 people and played the two songs next to each other? hey, everybody, get off this is not the first court battle over the late soul singer's classic hits. i know you. in 2013, gaye's family sued robin thicke and pharrell williams over their grammy award winning smash that blurred lines. artist plagiarized gaye's 1977 song got to give it up. both williams and thicke testified while the songs are similar in feel blurred, lines did not outright copy gaye's work. the judge ultimately awarding gaye's family a cut of the song's profits. initially, $7.4 million, which was later reduced to $5.3 million in damages. his family sharing their reaction exclusively with abc news. the jury of their you know, they

they didn't have to go away. they copied got to give it up and they heard it. it wasn't just us. that case divided the music world and set off a series of disputes in the years that followed, like katy perry's song the dark horse. copying this 2008 song, joyful noise, bright christian rapper marcus gray in august 2019, a jury decided the pop star, her label and five song collaborators had to pay up, awarding gray $2.78 million in damages, almost every song usually has like a similarity or sometimes a sample. a lot of the times a sample or an interpolation, it just clicks a button in your brain. you're like, wait, i know that from somewhere. jarrett jermaine or jermaine is almost 5 million followers. no amount. there's a dj in popular tiktok star who

breaks down common tunes on his channel. now most recently sharing his take on two songs at the center of the sheeran gay legal drama. i've been really trying i'd be be loving you till . it's 70. oh, baby man that's a piece of thinking out loud. so as you could hear the chord progression is kind of like going up and then back down, up and then back down. so let's take a listen to marvin gaye's let's get it on. i'm the really drive. i'm a whole to the feeling once old whole the marvin gaye song also goes up in steps to dun dun dun they're not the same key. so it's not going to sound exactly the same. but also, if you

listen rhythmically, it's kind of has a certain like a same speed as the other song too. so it's like, it's an interesting case. here we have, i must say this this is the first time ed sheeran has faced copyright claims. 2016. he was sued over his hit single photograph, which was settled out of court. we keep this love in a photograph. and just last year, the pop artist faced accusations that he and his co-writers of the song shape of you had stolen from a 2015 song by right away y by sam mcrae in ross o'donohue sheeran winning the suit and speaking out on instagram. i feel like claims like this are way too common now and have become a culture where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court. even if there's no basis for the claim. it's really damaging to the songwriting industry. the fate of his latest

case is still up in the air. townsend and ed sheeran present strong arguments on both sides. this is a case that no one has seen before in terms of chords of music, so it's hard to understand or predict what the outcome may be. but that outcome could rock the music industry. the concern that's been voiced by by sheeran's attorneys is that these are very common place, basic musical building blocks that are at stake in this case. and if you make it so that one person gets a monopoly on those, it will limit the toolbox or the palette and it will really chill future creativity. up next, bad cinderella takes broadway. we go behind the curtain of andrew lloyd webber's latest musical, meet the star with a cinderella story of her own mother. moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin despite treatment. it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now i can

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cats love the met bats. cinderella is pushing boundaries on broadway and telling a time honored story with flair. call me dancing or our lives like it's you. goodbye it's like taking a classic cinderella story and twisting it a little bit. how important do you think that is, especially now? it's very important being more inclusive. anybody that comes and sees our show, hopefully i hope, can see themselves represented on stage. fairy tales are not to be believed. nadie, who now plays the title role with a sharp stage presence and powerhouse vocals on my own , if only her third professional role on stage, the 31 year old's broadway career is a surprise second act, even for her. you've had such a journey, so take us

back. where was la nadie ten years ago? in 80. ten years ago. graduate from college with a business degree, pursuing a career in finance and business. and i wasn't pursuing musical theater professionally. i joined community choirs and did community theater, but i was working at a bank here in the city. was there still that little bit of hope that you could actually have a career in the arts even though you were you were doing the businesswoman thing? oh, absolutely. and it was because of in the heights. i heard the first few lyrics republic. i love this dominican republic. i love it. jesus, i'm jealous of it. and i was like, hold on. what? and i was like, wow, there's a place for me. i finally see myself represented on stage, and that's when i knew that i could finally do it. auditioning for musicals in between her finance, 9 to 5 was a leap of faith. i asked my boss for the day off, so i can go to the audition. i took a selfie on

my iphone four and printed it at walgreens. that was my headshot. i didn't have a professional headshot, so i went to the open call and with high school theater experience, i made my broadway debut for that 2015 debut in the ensemble for on your feet, a musical about latin singer gloria estefan when she eventually played gloria herself . when the show opened at new jersey's papermill playhouse. nine 1011. i'm just going to keep on counting. then in 2022, bad cinderella came calling. i got an email from my agents with an audition for cinderella and i said, oh, cinderella. andrew lloyd webber. oh, okay. so i went to the audition. it felt great. i you know, sang the songs and all the material that they provided and then got a callback and another callback and another. the last audition, i was the last person there. i had already sobbed in the chair singing one of the ballads, and they're like, we need to see you again. i'm like, i can't. like, i have nothing left. that's when i go in the room and andrew

lloyd webber asks me to be his cinderella. we did not cinderella. oh, my. that just gave me goosebumps. that's incredible. it's still very much over whelming. if i sit down and think about it all at once. there was a post on instagram that you posted about 120 of your family and friends were out here to see you. what was that like to have those latinos in the imperial theater? oh, it was so overwhelming. like just to have my two grandmas here to see their granddaughter lead a broadway show and to play la and like they call me now, now it meant everything to me before her opening night, cinderella showed us her dress for the ball, aka the red carpet. let's go down estrella. gracias. oh you knew one day it could happen and it happened. yeah. and you were repping dominican republic.

right? now you're wearing oscar de la renta for the red carpet. but everything is oscar de la renta. except the shoes. except she, as you go out there on the red carpet to talk to folks about this amazing show that you are the lead in, what goes through your mind? just gratitude and just the immense responsibility i have as a latina princess. but on the way downstairs, leonardi and her castmates staging an impromptu photo shoot. bad cinderella with high hopes for what comes next. what comes after this? i just want to remember this experience and these feelings for the rest of my life. i just hope to continue living my dream, creating new art, inspiring people, and just being a part of this community. our thanks to stephanie. up

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ugliest eras of american history . born in 1927 to west indian parents in harlem, new york, his birth and adolescence, bookended by two world wars. his early options limited by the shackles and shame of jim crow. still, it's one of his temporaries with right like air, he rose with that pain by 1990, like go home banana boat made him famous in fame led to unimaginable first, his breakthrough album, calypso at the top of the charts for 31 weeks, the first full length album by a solo performer to sell a million copies. he was the first black performer to win an emmy and to produce a network television special that featured black and white artists on stage together by 1959, harry belafonte was the highest paid black artist on earth. but by the mid 1960s, he was prepared to lose it all over principle.

he cashed in much of his celebrity for the civil rights movement, a confidant to dr. king, helping organize the march in washington in 1963. we rejoice in the knowledge that human experience has no color, he would lend his stature to other causes when stars gather to raise awareness about a singing, we are the world. even they took notice of belafonte's presence. they are come and live on and go from the anti-apartheid movement to opposition to the war in iraq. popular unpopular. he stood for the issues that triggered his conscience. a world not integrated as a world disintegrated in with war and pain and stuff. so my role was a fairly easy in terms of public acclaim. i just never set out for it. the public came to me. they did for nearly a century. i had the good fortune to interview this good man twice. why don't you stay in your lane? i was as a performer, as an

artist. i was nothing in my lane. but a skill. i won every award other artistic mistakes that i made could. i sang a song a little better. could i play that part a little better? all those things wide open for improved. but in terms of the choices in life, the cadence where i stood, where i chose to be, what i've said, no retreat, no regret, even in the autumn years of life. harry belafonte was playful, prophetic kind in his activism. like his art, he was a triple threat. you look good for 37. hey. yeah actually, it's 36. but. what thing in life you know for sure for which you have no doubt? i have no doubt that there is a god and i have no doubt that we've yet to discover who that god is. always

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