Article 6BS0B Ed Sheeran beats second lawsuit over Thinking Out Loud and Let’s Get It On

Ed Sheeran beats second lawsuit over Thinking Out Loud and Let’s Get It On

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Ben Beaumont-Thomas
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Sheeran prevails two weeks after winning copyright case that also alleged similarities with Marvin Gaye's 1973 hit

Ed Sheeran has defeated a second lawsuit that alleged he imitated Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On for his song Thinking Out Loud, two weeks after he prevailed in another high-profile copyright case regarding the two songs.

A district judge in Manhattan, Louis Stanton, dismissed the case that had been brought against Sheeran by Structured Asset Sales (SAS), a company owned by an investment banker David Pullman. Pullman essentially owns a portion of Let's Get It On, namely part of the song's copyright originally belonging to Ed Townsend, who wrote the song with Gaye in 1973.

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