{"id":2012,"date":"2025-06-16T17:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moderncryptotrader.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/supreme-court-hands-ed-sheeran-legal-win-in-marvin-gaye-copyright-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:27:04","slug":"supreme-court-hands-ed-sheeran-legal-win-in-marvin-gaye-copyright-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moderncryptotrader.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/supreme-court-hands-ed-sheeran-legal-win-in-marvin-gaye-copyright-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court hands Ed Sheeran legal win in Marvin Gaye copyright fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court has rejected a copyright lawsuit alleging that Ed Sheeran\u2019s 2014 hit song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ copied music chords from Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic ‘Let’s Get It On.’<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court on Monday decided not to hear the case brought by Structured Asset Sales (SAS), which owns a portion of the rights to Gaye\u2019s song. The decision keeps in place the lower court decision that Sheeran was not liable in the copyright infringement lawsuit.<\/p>\n

SAS, which is owned by investment banker David Pullman, had argued that Sheeran used the copyrighted melody, harmony and rhythm of Gaye\u2019s ‘Let’s Get It On.’<\/p>\n

The case was dismissed in 2023 after U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton decided that the musical elements Sheeran was accused of copying were too common. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The dismissal followed Sheeran\u2019s victory in a separate copyright lawsuit over the song that was brought by the family of singer-songwriter Ed Townsend, who co-wrote Gaye’s song. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

‘It’s devastating to be accused of stealing someone else’s song when we’ve put so much work into our livelihoods,’ Sheeran said outside the courthouse following that verdict.<\/p>\n

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SAS appealed Stanton\u2019s decision, though the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the judge\u2019s decision last year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n

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