Ed Sheeran opened up about winning the copyright battle over his song 'Shape of You.'
“You can get a judgement or you can have a settlement and [when] you know that you’re in the right, then you can’t settle just out of principle. You can’t settle,” Sheeran reportedly toldafter a High Court judge ruled on Wednesday that Sheeran had not plagiarized the 2015 Sam Shokri song “Oh Why.” Sheeran and his co-writer, Snowpatrol’s Johnny McDaid, said the trial was an “extraordinary strain” on them, Ed said there was “no other choice” but to fight the allegation.
After the verdict, Sheeran celebrated the ruling in a video posted to social media – and blasted what he called “baseless” lawsuits and the harm they’re doing to the music industry. “While we’re obviously happy with the result, I feel like claims like this are way too common now and have become a culture where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court. Even if there’s no base for the claim,” Sheeran said. “It’s really damaging to the songwriting industry. There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in Back in 2017, Sheeran, he wishes he hadn’t. “I didn’t play ‘Photograph’ for ages after that. I just stopped playing it.
Now, in order to potentially avoid any similar cases in the future, Sheeran said he films all his recording sessions, though he did not do it during collaborative songwriting sessions with other artists, including the “Shape of You” ones with McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon. “Now I just film everything, everything is on film,” he said.brawls have caused him to second-guess his songwriting choices and put a chill on one of his most beloved practices.
For McDaid, the latest copyright battle has made him think that there needs to be more open lines of communication among people in the music industry than courtroom drama. “I think there’s obvious holes in the system at the moment,” said McDaid.
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