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Supreme Court Rejects Ed Sheeran Copyright Lawsuit Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’
Ed Sheeran beat a lawsuit claiming his “Thinking Out Loud” infringed Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On" after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the case.
In an order issued Monday, the high court refused to revive a long-running lawsuit that claimed Sheeran’s 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud” infringed Marvin Gaye‘s famed 1973 jam “Let’s Get It On.” The star’s legal accuser — a company that owns a partial stake in Gaye’s 1973 song — had asked the justices to hear the case, which was dismissed in November by a lower court that ruled the two tracks share only basic “musical building blocks.” “The four-chord progression at issue — ubiquitous in pop music — even coupled with a syncopated harmonic rhythm, is too well-explored to meet the originality threshold that copyright law demands,” the appeals court wrote.
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