Ed Sheeran To 2nd Circuit: Intervention In ‘Let’s Get It On’ Suit Was Untimely

Mealey's (December 14, 2018, 9:59 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — In a Nov. 29 appellee brief, pop singer Ed Sheeran asks the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to affirm the denial of a third party’s motion to intervene in a suit alleging copyright infringement of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 hit “Let’s Get It On,” arguing that the prospective intervenor waited more than three years to take action over its purported rights in the song (Kathryn Townsend Griffin, et al. v. Edward Christopher Sheeran, et al., No. 18-1862, 2nd Cir.)....