STRUCTURED ASSET SALES, LLC v. SHEERAN

No. 23-905 August Term 2023.

120 F.4th 1066 (2024)

STRUCTURED ASSET SALES, LLC, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edward Christopher SHEERAN, Personally Known as Ed Sheeran, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, LLC, Atlantic Recording Corporation, dba Atlantic Records, BDi Music Ltd., Bucks Music Group Ltd., The Royalty Network, Inc., David Platz Music (USA) Inc., Amy Wadge, Jake Gosling, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: November 1, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hillel I. Parness, Parness Law Firm, PLLC, New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Alfred J. Fluehr, Francis Alexander, LLC, Media, Pennsylvania, for amici curiae Randy Craig Wolfe Trust and Sound and Color, LLC.

Donald S. Zakarin, (Ilene S. Farkas, Andrew M. Goldsmith, and Brian M. Maida, on the brief) Pryor Cashman LLP, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Calabresi, Parker, and Park, Circuit Judges.


The question in this case is whether the district court erred by dismissing an action alleging that Ed Sheeran's 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud infringes the copyright of Marvin Gaye's 1973 classic Let's Get It On. It did not.

First, the Copyright Act of 1909 protects only the musical composition of Let...

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