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Supreme Court Rejects Bid To Reopen ‘Thinking Out Loud’ Copyright Lawsuit Against Ed Sheeran
The Supreme Court justices declined to hear an appeal filed by Structured Asset Sales, a company that owns a partial stake in Gaye’s 1973 song.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said that it would not hear a lawsuit filed against musician Ed Sheeran that alleged his hit single Thinking Out Loud copied Marvin Gaye ’s classic Let’s Get It On. In a separate 2023 copyright lawsuit over the same issue filed by the heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s co-writer on the Motown classic, a jury in Manhattan federal court ruled in favor of Sheeran. Speaking outside the court at the time, Sheeran said: “We spent the past eight years talking about two songs with dramatically different lyrics, melodies and four chords which are also different and used by songwriters every day all over the world.”
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