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Ed Sheeran onstage during the GRAMMY Pre-Telecast at The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Microsoft Theater on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.Kevork Djansezian—2016 Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Aug 10, 2016 12:33 PM UTC Ed Sheeran’s hit song, _Thinking Out Loud_, copied core elements of Marvin Gaye’s _Let’s Get It On_, [according to a new lawsuit](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-edsheeran-lawsuit-idUSKCN10L04X) filed Tuesday. The heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the lyrics to Gaye’s classic in 1973 and created its musical composition, are suing Sheeran for copyright infringement, claiming the Grammy Award-winning artist essentially duplicated the “heart” of _Let’s Get It On_, Reuters reports. “The Defendants copied the ‘heart’ of ‘Let’s’ and repeated it continuously throughout ‘Thinking,'” the lawsuit said, according to the news agency. “The melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic compositions of ‘Thinking’ are substantially and/or strikingly similar to the drum composition of ‘Let’s.'” The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, asks for damages to be assessed at a jury trial, according to Reuters. Sheeran’s wildly successful _Thinking Out Loud_ was the first song ever to hit 500 million streams on Spotify, and it won Song of the Year at this year’s Grammy Awards. Sheeran’s representatives did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday. The British musician is also being sued over his song, [_Photograph_](http://time.com/4362358/ed-sheeran-photograph-amazing-matt-cardle-lawsuit/). Songwriters Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard, who are seeking $20 million, say _Photograph_ is nearly identical to their 2009 song _Amazing_. [Last March](http://time.com/3740944/blurred-lines-lawsuit-comparison/), Marvin Gaye’s family was awarded nearly $7.4 million dollars after a jury ruled that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied Gaye on their 2013 hit _Blurred Lines._ Ed Sheeran Sued for Allegedly Copying Marvin Gaye Classic ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4446236/ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye-thinking-out-loud/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4446236/ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye-thinking-out-loud/"},"headline":"Ed Sheeran Sued for Allegedly Copying Marvin Gaye’s Let's Get It On","datePublished":"2016-08-10T12:33:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:00:51.267Z","description":"\"Thinking Out Loud\" copied the \"heart\" of the 1973 classic, the suit says","url":"https://time.com/4446236/ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye-thinking-out-loud/","keywords":["celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc23c75fb8910a458/6988a1c997cdff219d6ad629/ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc23c75fb8910a458/6988a1c997cdff219d6ad629/ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye","caption":"Ed Sheeran onstage during the GRAMMY Pre-Telecast at The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Microsoft Theater on February 15, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.","creditText":"Kevork Djansezian—2016 Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4446236/ed-sheeran-lawsuit-marvin-gaye-thinking-out-loud/","name":"Ed Sheeran Sued for Allegedly Copying Marvin Gaye’s Let's Get It On"}}]}] ```