With 1/3 ownership of “Let’s Get It On”, Structured Asset Sales goes after Sheeran's “Thinking Out Loud”

The mag "People" wrote of the Sheeran case:



Ed Sheeran is facing a $100 million plagiarism lawsuit alleging that his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud” borrowed too heavily from Marvin Gaye‘s sultry bedroom classic, “Let’s Get It On.”

According to TMZ, Structured Asset Sales has filed a suit claiming the monster single from Sheeran’s X album uses melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, instrumental and dynamic elements taken from Gaye’s 1973 song. A rep for Sheeran did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.


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the Townsend family has sold a third of their shares in “Let’s Get It On” to Structured Asset Sales, the organization is relaunching the suit.


link: https://people.com/music/ed-sheeran-100-million-thinking-out-loud-plagiarism-lawsuit/