Judge declines to dismiss new Ed Sheeran song-theft litigation that relies on newly registered Marvin Gaye copyright

completemusicupdate.com:

A US judge has declined to dismiss the third lawsuit that alleges Ed Sheeran ripped off Marvin Gaye when writing his 2014 song ‘Thinking Out Loud’.

This third round of litigation is very similar to the other two lawsuits linked to this dispute, although technically Sheeran is now accused of infringing Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ as published in 2020, rather than 1973.A quick recap.

Back in 2016 the estate of ‘Let’s Get It On’ co-writer Ed Townsend sued Sheeran through the US courts over allegations that he had ripped off the “melody, harmony and rhythm compositions” of the Gaye classic on ‘Thinking Out Loud’.

A company called Structured Asset Sale then filed its own litigation over the same allegations on the basis that it also has a stake in.