NEW YORK — Opening statements were set to occur Tuesday after a jury was chosen in a trial that mashes up Ed Sheeran's  'Thinking Out Loud' with  Marvin Gaye's  'Let's Get It On.' The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye's co-writer of the 1973 soul classic, sued Sheeran, alleging the English pop star's hit 2014 tune has 'striking similarities' to 'Let's Get It On' and 'overt common elements' that violate their copyright. The lawsuit filed in 2017 has finally made it to a trial that is expected to last up to two weeks in the Manhattan federal courtroom of 95-year-old Judge Louis L.

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