Ed Sheeran is said to have been in court on April 24, the day the trial over whether he copied Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On starts in New York.

At the beginning of 2017, Sheeran was sued by the family of Ed Townsend, who wrote songs with Marvin Gaye. The heirs of Ed Townsend said that Ed’s song “Let’s Get It On” has “striking similarities” to Sheeran’s 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud,” which is against the song’s copyright.

The lawyers for Sheeran said that the songs’ “structural symmetry only points to the basics of popular music.”

“The two songs share versions of a similar and unprotected chord progression that was freely available to all songwriters,” the court filing said.

The lawsuit started on Monday in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, and Sheeran is going to appear in the case, which will last a week.

According to the Independent, the jury, in this case, is being asked to “take in the raw elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm” as they talk about how similar the two songs are legally.

Sheeran’s lawyers, Simon Goodbody and Andrew Forbes, said, “The decision is a clear vindication of Ed, Johnny, and Steve’s creative genius. They have always said that they made Shape of You together, without copying anyone else.”

The jury will be made up of four women and three men. Sheeran is accused of using Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” in his hit song “Thinking Out Loud.”