Ed Sheeran was acquitted Thursday in Manhattan federal court on a charge that he plagiarized the Marvin Gaye ’70s hit “Let’s Get It On” for his own “Thinking Out Loud.”
The verdict that found him not liable for copyright infringement came after just a few hours of deliberation Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton had sent the Manhattan jury into deliberations with a pointed admonition: “Independent creation is a complete defense, no matter how similar that song is.” Stanton told jurors that the lawyers for the heirs of Gaye’s co-writer, Ed Townsend, needed to “prove by a preponderance of the evidence… that Sheeran actually copied and wrongfully copied ‘Let’s Get It On’” — as opposed to the coincidental, negligible similarities argued by Sheeran’s attorneys.
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