Supreme Court Rejects Ed Sheeran Copyright Case Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ | Billboard News - video Dailymotion

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The Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit that claimed Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" infringed upon Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” Keep watching for the full story.

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00:00Does this song

00:01Take me into your loving arms

00:04Sound like this one?

00:05I've been really trying, baby

00:08Well, the Supreme Court doesn't want to hear about it

00:12As Ed Sheeran escapes a court battle and we have the story

00:15So my one is, um

00:16When your legs don't work like they used to before

00:20And then there's

00:21Have I told you lately that I loved you

00:24And then, um, um

00:26People get ready

00:28There's a train of coming

00:30On Monday, June 16th, the High Court refused to revive a long-running lawsuit

00:35That claimed Sheeran's 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud

00:38Infringed Marvin Gaye's famed 1973 jam, Let's Get It On

00:43Thinking Out Loud

00:46Sheeran has faced multiple lawsuits over the track

00:49That reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100

00:51And ultimately spent 58 weeks on the chart

00:54Ed's legal accuser had asked the Supreme Court justices

00:57To hear the case

00:58Which was dismissed in November by a lower court

01:01That ruled the two tracks share only basic musical building blocks

01:05Let's get it on

01:07No one's saying that songs shouldn't be copyrighted

01:13But you just can't copyright a chord sequence

01:15You just can't

01:16I'm really glad it's over, man

01:17It was like eight years of that

01:19Are Sheeran's legal issues behind him?

01:21We'll keep you posted here at Billboard

01:23That's not for it

01:24So if I did

Supreme Court Rejects Ed Sheeran Copyright Case Over Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ | Billboard News

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