The court stated that the award-winning singer-songwriter did not plagiarize the late Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ in composing his smash tune ‘Thinking Out Loud.‘
British heavyweight singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist Edward Christopher Sheeran, popularly known as Ed Sheeran, has been found not guilty of plagiarizing Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ by a US court.
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter was earlier sued by Marvin Gaye’s estate after the daughter of Gaye’s co-writer Ed Townsend, Kathryn Townsend Griffin, argued that Sheeran, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Publishing owed them money for copyright infringement.
According to several reports, a musicologist for Sheeran’s defence made it known to the court that the four-chord sequence in question was used in several songs before Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On” was released.
