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# Jury To Decide Ed Sheeran, Marvin Gaye Infringement Case
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/jury-to-decide-ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-infringement-case/
- Published: 2019-01-07T09:00:35.000Z
- Updated: 2019-01-07T09:00:35.000Z
- Description: US district judge Louis Stanton has ruled that a jury will decide the outcome of a plagiarism lawsuit against Ed Sheeran over his No. 1 single “Thinking Out Loud.” The. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/01/jury-to-decide-ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-infringement-case.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Music Business, Songwriting & Music Publishing, " copyright infringement, "Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:00

[![image from celebrityaccess.com](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad357c38b200c-200wi "image from celebrityaccess.com")](https://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2022ad357c38b200c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)US district judge Louis Stanton has ruled that a jury will decide the outcome of a plagiarism lawsuit against Ed Sheeran over his No. 1 single “Thinking Out Loud.” The lawsuit, which alleges that Sheeran copied portions of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s Get It On,” was launched against the singer, Sony/ATV and Atlantic Records by the estate of producer Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the song.While Sheeran and his team have denied the claims, judge Stanton – who is also overseeing a separate $100 million lawsuit over the same song launched by Structured Asset Sales which owns part of the copyright of “Let’s Get It On” – said that he found “substantial similarities between several of the two works’ musical elements”.“Thinking Out Loud” has spent 118 weeks in the Top 100.The ruling arrives less than a month after a California judge [ruled against the writers of “Blurred Lines”](http://celebrityaccess.com/2018/12/13/blurred-lines-copyright-suit-ends-in-5m-judgement-against-robin-thicke-pharrell-williams/?ref=hypebot.com) in a case involving copying infringement of another one of Gaye’s song.

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