The British musician and singer, Ed Sheeran, won his civil lawsuit in New York on Thursday where he was prosecuted for plagiarizing a song by the American Marvin Gaye.
Second trial in a year
The Manhattan federal court jury, which had been trying for ten days in this emblematic music copyright case, found that the 32-year-old singer had created his song “independently” and that his planetary hit from
2014
,
Thinking Out Loud
was therefore not a partial copy of the famous
Let's Get It On
by the prince of soul Marvin Gaye in 1973.
The plaintiffs in this case were the heirs of Ed Townsend, an American musician and producer who co-wrote the track with Marvin Gaye.
It was the second trial in a year for the 32-year-old British singer and songwriter, who in April 2022 won a separate court battle at the High Court in London, which dismissed two musicians accusing him of having copied one of their works for his mega hit
Shape Of You.
