When songwriter Rhett Akins was in high school, he returned from football camp to go visit his girlfriend he hadn't seen in two weeks. When he got to her house he saw something odd in her driveway. He ...

Thinking out loud, it seems Ed Sheeran is enjoying a legal victory lap. Weeks after a New York jury found he did not plagiarize Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On,” Sheeran was cleared of a similar ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with NPR music critic Ann Powers on the rise of interpolation in the increasingly litigious music industry and the line between nostalgia and theft. ED SHEERAN: (Singing) ...

The song was “Dancing in the Dark,” the future lead single from Born in the U.S.A. Hearing it for the first time, Landau was ...