Jury selection and opening statements are set to begin today in a trial that mashes up Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' with Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On.'
which won a Grammy for song of the year, is a much more marital take on love and sex.
"The two songs share versions of a similar and unprotectable chord progression that was freely available to all songwriters," they said in a court filing. Gaye's estate is not involved in the case, though it will inevitably have echoes of their successful lawsuit against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I. over the resemblance of their 2013 hit"Blurred Lines" to Gaye's 1977"Got to Give it Up."
Townsend, who also wrote the 1958 R&B doo-wop hit"For Your Love," was a singer, songwriter and lawyer. He died in 2003. Kathryn Townsend Griffin, his daughter, is the plaintiff leading the lawsuit.
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