Popular British musician Edward Christopher Sheeran also known as Ed Sheeran has been found not liable for a copyright infringement for Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic, “Let’s Get It On.”The verdict was issued by a jury at the Manhattan federal court.
“I am very happy with the outcome of this case, and it looks like I’m not going to have to retire from my day job, after all. But at the same time, I am unbelievably frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all.” Ed Sheeran said.
Ed Sheeran testified that Marvin Gaye’s song was nowhere near what he and his co-writer Amy Wadge’s had in mind when they made “Thinking out loud”. He claimed to draw inspiration from situations in his life. 
“It is an unfortunate situation that has happened, in fact these people were (here) for the peace dialogue mission to Imehejek,” he said
It was the second trial in a year for Sheeran, who successfully testified at a London court last April in a case centered around his song “Shape Of You,” saying that lawsuit was emblematic of copyright litigation going too far. The judge ruled in his favor.Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” shot up America’s Billboard Hot 100 charts when it was released, and won Sheeran a Song of the Year prize at the Grammys in 2016.
There have been a flood of such copyright trials in recent years, notably in 2016 when Gaye’s family — who is not part of the New York lawsuit against Sheeran — successfully sued the artists Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I. over similarities between the song “Blurred Lines” and Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.”
