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Ed Sheeran wins copyright case; jury rules he did not steal Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'

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Jurors on Thursday (May 4) announced that in Ed Sheeran's copyright infringement trial, he did not copy Marvin Gaye's 1973 song "Let's Get It On" for his 2014 track "Thinking Out Loud."

"I feel like the truth was heard and the truth was believed," Sheeran told media in the courtroom just after the verdict was read. "It's nice that we can both move on with our lives now — it's sad that it had to come to this."

The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's co-writer on the hit, had alleged in a 2017 lawsuit that Sheeran's song had "overt common elements" and "striking similarities" to the classic, while Sheeran's team argued in a court filing that any similarities are a coincidence.

File footage shows Ed Sheeran turning a fan's phone on himself and capturing an amusing video during one of his concerts.

The clip was filmed in Washington, D.C. on May 4, 2017.

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