Ed Sheeran Will Face Jury Over Allegation He Copied Marvin Gaye

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will have to face a jury to determine if he plagiarized Marvin Gaye in his hit song "Thinking Out Loud" that released in 2014. Sheeran request to have the case thrown out was rejected by District Judge Louis Stanton yesterday (Jan. 3), with Staton stating that he chose to reject the request because there were "substantial similarities between several of the two works' musical elements," according to Reuters. The Marvin Gaye estate and heirs of Ed Townsend, who co-wro...