Musician Ed Sheeran played guitar and sang on the stand Thursday as part of his testimony in a copyright infringement trial about whether his smash single “Thinking Out Loud” copied the ...

Ed Sheeran’s federal copyright trial was thrown into disarray Wednesday when the woman accusing him of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On” suddenly collapsed in court and had to ...

Ed Sheeran, his record label Warner Music and music publisher Sony Music Publishing persuaded a U.S. appeals court on Friday to uphold a decision that his 2014 hit "Thinking Out Loud" did not ...

Ed Townsend was the principal songwriter with Marvin Gaye for the hit song “Let’s Get It On.” Gregory P. Mango. Gaye wrote "Let's Get It On" and it instantly became an R&B classic in 1973.

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was found not liable Thursday in a copyright infringement lawsuit that alleged his hit “Thinking Out Loud” stole elements from the iconic 1973 Marvin Gaye song ...

The singer was accused of copying his ballad “Thinking Out Loud” from Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” In court, he said he and a co-writer created the song, inspired by his grandparents.

The Supreme Court rejected hearing a copyright lawsuit against Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud," upholding lower court ruling that the song did not copy Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On." ...

On Monday, June 16, Reuters reported that the Supreme Court rejected a bid to revive a copyright lawsuit alleging the pop star copied Marvin Gaye's 1973 classic "Let's Get It On" in his 2014 track ...

That meant that the jury never heard Gaye’s original recording, which went to No. 1 in 1973. Instead, the defendants supplied a computer-generated re-creation of what appears on the deposit copy ...

Gaye's song was co-written by late musician Ed Townsend, and Townsend's heirs sued in 2017. "Thinking Out Loud" was co-written by Amy Wadge, but she was not named in the suit.

The New York lawsuit hinges on whether Ed Sheeran, in his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud,” copied musical elements of Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” ...