Park, Circuit Judge:
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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