This trend to sue everyone, knowing the law is currently on the side of the criminal, MUST stop.
Of course Ed did not deliberately copy the Marvin Gaye song.
Of course we are all influenced by past music.
Of course when False Allegations succeed in court, winning loadsacash for liars, criminals and crooks, they should NOT allow further blackmail crimes against the innocent, though convicted, victims.
This is not just a plagiarism problem.
Society itself is falling apart.

Unsure that society is falling apart but people have largely turned for the worse. Bad neighbours, rudeness and limited politeness when out and about, abrasiveness and hostility on forums and in YouTube comments. Awful.