Ed Sheeran did not copy Marvin Gaye\u2019s Let\u2019s Get It On when composing Thinking Out Loud, a US court has ruled.<\/p>\n
The British singer-songwriter had denied stealing elements of the song for his 2014 worldwide hit.<\/p>\n
Heirs of Gaye\u2019s co-writer argued that Sheeran, Warner Group and Sony Publishing owed them money for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n
Sheeran reportedly told the trial in New York that if he was found guilty he would give up his music career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf that happens, I\u2019m done, I\u2019m stopping,\u201d he said when asked about the toll the trial at Manhattan federal court was taking on him.<\/p>\n
Sheeran reportedly stood up and hugged his team after jurors ruled that he \u201cindependently\u201d created his song.<\/p>\n During the civil trial, Sheeran sang and played parts of Thinking Out Loud on the guitar.<\/p>\n He said he wrote the song at home in England with his friend Amy Wadge and had been inspired by his grandparents and a new romantic relationship he had just begun.<\/p>\n Sheeran\u2019s lawyer, Ilene Farkas, told the jurors that similarities in the chord progressions and rhythms of the two songs were \u201cthe letters of the alphabet of music.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese are basic musical building blocks that songwriters now and forever must be free to use, or all of us who love music will be poorer for it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n![\"Kathryn](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/_129594760_sheerantrial-getty.jpg\" "\\"Ed")