Ed Sheeran didn't ge pyright of Marv Gaye's 'Let's Get It On' : NPR

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• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• ED SHEERAN SAYS HE'D NEVER HEARD MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON' UNTIL HE WATCHED 'AT POWERS' AMID ACCATNS HE PIED THE TRACK ON 'THKG OUT LOUD'
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED PYRIGHT TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'

Ed Sheeran will stand trial the US over claims he pied his h 2014 song Thkg Out Loud om Marv Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, after a feral judge rejected the pop star’s efforts to toss out the long-nng pyright se. In April, Sheeran was cleared of pyg his chart-toppg 2017 track Shape of You, a separate se claim over Thkg Out Loud was origally lodged 2018 by a pany lled Stctured Asset Sal (SAS), which acquired a portn of the tate of Ed Townsend, who -wrote Let’s Get It sought $100m (£90m) damag, allegg that Sheeran and his -wrer Amy Wadge “pied and exploed, whout thorisatn or cred, ” the 1973 Gaye song, “cludg but not limed to the melody, rhythms, harmoni, dms, bass le, backg chos, tempo, synpatn and loopg”.

NEW YORK — A feral jury New York nclud Thursday that Brish sger Ed Sheeran didn't steal key ponents of Marv Gaye's classic 1970s tune "Let's Get It On" when he created his h song "Thkg Out Loud.

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ED SHEERAN SAYS HE'D NEVER HEARD MARV GAYE'S 'LET'S GET IT ON' UNTIL HE WATCHED 'AT POWERS' AMID ACCATNS HE PIED THE TRACK ON 'THKG OUT LOUD'

The sger is beg sued by the heirs of the wrer of Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On. Sheeran told the urt he hadn't heard Gaye's song until he watched the 1999 movie, "At Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

ED SHEERAN CLEARED PYRIGHT TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

Ed Sheeran claimed he hadn't heard Marv Gaye's "Let's Get It On" until he watched "At Powers" as he took to the stand for the first time his "Thkg Out Loud" pyright heirs of Ed Townsend, who wrote "Let's Get It On, " are sug Sheeran, allegg that his 2014 song "Thkg Out Loud" has "strikg siari" to Gaye's 1973 soul classic.

Appearg  a Manhattan feral urtroom on Tuday, Sheeran ttified that he did not py om Gaye's song. "He sisted, however, that "Thkg Out Loud" was not based on Gaye's song, but stead on a nversatn that he and wrer Amy Wadge had about his song is about fdg love at an old age, he told the urt, acrdg to NBC to "Thkg Out Loud" here:And "Let's Get It On" here:Earlier on Tuday, Sheeran was qutned about a live mashup of "Thkg Out Loud" and "Let's Get It On" he performed durg a 2014 show Zurich, which was ught on Cmp, a lawyer for the Townsend fay, told the urt that the ncert vio amounted to a "smokg gun" nfsn, acrdg to the BBC.