British singer Ed Sheeran is facing another lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement.
After legal skirmishes over his titles "Photograph", "The Rest of Our Life" and "Shape of You", the Grammy winner also has to defend himself over "Thinking Out Loud".
A federal court in New York on Thursday denied Sheeran's motion to dismiss Structured Asset Sales' claim for damages.
The company that owns the rights to Marvin Gaye's classic Let's Get It On sued him four years ago, saying he had written off Thinking Out Loud.
Structured Asset Sales has accused Sheeran of copying the melody, chorus, tempo and bassline from Gaye's 1973 track.
The singer's lawyers, on the other hand, argued that repetitions of individual song passages are common in the music industry and therefore do not constitute copyright infringement.
Sheeran is expected to appear in court in Manhattan later this year.
The thirty-one-year-old settled the earlier lawsuit over the title "Photograph" out of court, and the lawsuit over "The Rest of Our Life" was dismissed.
Sheeran won the Shape of You trial.