Ed Sheeran wins lawsuit in 'Let's Get It On' copyright trial

Ed Sheeran did not copy part of a Marvin Gaye melody in his hit song"Thinking Out Loud," a New York jury found Thursday.The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's co-writer on the track"Let's Get It On," filed a lawsuit in 2017 accusing Sheeran's song"Thinking Out Loud" of having"striking similarities" and sharing"overt common elements" with the 1973 classic soul track. Townsend died in 2003.

Using a guitar, Sheeran showed jurors the chord progression on"Thinking Out Loud," which he testified his co-writer Amy Wadge came up with. He told jurors the progression on the Grammy award winning song is played differently than the progression on"Let's Get It On."

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