Ed Sheeran has been found not liable in the copyright lawsuit trial that accused his song 'Thinking Out Loud' of infringing on Marvin Gaye’s 'Let’s Get it On.'
with a strummed rendition of “Thinking Out Loud,” singing what he said were the tune’s original lyrics: “I’m singing out now.” He told the jury that he’d written the tune, in Feb. 2014, after his grandfather died and that the lyrics was a bit like “I’m thinking out loud.” When he herd his cowriter, Amy Wadge, playing the chords in another room, the song clicked for him., mashing up tunes by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Blackstreet, and Van Morrison with “Thinking Out Loud.
Sheeran, who earlier this year won a plagiarism lawsuit in the U.K. over his hit “Shape of You,” last settled a lawsuit over another one of his hits, “Photograph,” for $20 million in 2017.
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