A jury will decide if the British singer-songwriter is guilty of ripping off Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On.'
The British singer-songwriter is being sued for copyright infringement over allegedly stealing elements of Marvin Gaye's"Let's Get It On" to write his 2014 single"Thinking Out Loud."
The estate of Ed Townsend, who co-write the song with Gaye, filed the lawsuit in 2017, alleging the two songs had"striking similarities" that violate copyright law. To demonstrate his point in court, Sheeran performed the chords used in"Thinking Out Loud" while singing various songs from other artists, whom he testified he did not copy.
In closing arguments Wednesday, Farkas told jurors the chord progressions were"the letters of the alphabet of music" and that any similarities between the songs are"basic to the toolkit of songwriters."
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