Ed Sheeran Cleared of Mimicking Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’

Pop star Ed Sheeran won a closely watched trial over claims that his 2014 Grammy-winning song Thinking Out Loud copied key musical elements from Marvin Gaye’s classic soul groove Let’s Get It On.

A federal jury in Manhattan delivered the verdict on Thursday, rejecting allegations by the heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s co-writer on the 1973 hit. It’s the second time Sheeran has defeated claims of copyright infringement. Last year a UK court found that he didn’t copy from another song to create his 2017 hit Shape of You.

Ed Sheeran arrives at Manhattan federal court in New York on May 4.

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Sheeran and his legal team were about to get ...