British musician Ed Sheeran won his civil lawsuit Thursday in New York where he was prosecuted for plagiarism of a song by American Marvin Gaye. The jury of the federal court in Manhattan found that the 32-year-old singer had created his song "independently" and that his global hit of 2014, "Thinking Out Loud" was not a partial copy of the famous "Let's Get It On" of the prince of soul MarvinGaye in 1973.
The consequences of the outcome of this trial were important: a verdict against the singer could have "cooled" artists in musical creation, warned some musicologists.