after being accused of copying parts of Marvin Gaye’s track Let’s Get It On for his own 2014 release, which he denied.
After being taken to court by the family of Gaye’s co-writer, the jurors ruled that he had not infringed on the family’s copyright, as heTwo weeks later, the 32-year-old has defeated another copyright lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan, which was brought by Structured Asset Sales LLC. The judge, US District Judge Louis Stanton decided that the portions of the 1973 song that he was accused of mimicking were too common to be protected by copyright,Stanton, who presided over both of the court cases, concluded that in Let’s Get It On, the combination of chord progression and the harmonic rhythm was a ‘basic musical building block’ that was commonly used.