Ed Sheeran ordered to face US trial over claims he copied Marvin Gaye for hit song Thinking Out Loud
ED Sheeran has been ordered to face a US trial over claims he copied Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On for his 2014 song Thinking Out Loud.
A judge rejected the singer’s bid to dismiss the long-running case.
It comes six months after Ed, 31, was cleared of copying his smash hit Shape of You in a London trial.
He was awarded £900,000 costs.
After the March verdict he took to Instagram to say that the accusations were “really damaging to the songwriting industry”.
The new £90million claim alleges that Ed and co-writer Amy Wadge “copied and exploited” the Gaye song.
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The lawsuit was originally lodged in 2018 by a US investment banker and the company Structured Asset Sales after they acquired a portion of the 70s classic.
The trial will be in New York.