Ed Sheeran Wins UK High Court Copyright Battle Over Shape of You Hit

Ed Sheeran Wins UK High Court Copyright Battle Over Shape of You Hit
Ed Sheeran at the 68th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin in Berlin, Germany on Feb. 23, 2018. Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Images
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Ed Sheeran’s 2017 hit Shape Of You does not infringe another artist’s copyright, a British High Court judge has ruled.

At a trial last month, the singer and his Shape Of You co-writers, Snow Patrol’s John McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon, faced accusations that they ripped off the 2015 song Oh Why by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue.