Ed Sheeran wins UK copyright lawsuit over 'Shape of You'

Ed Sheeran won a copyright lawsuit brought by another singer who claimed that the Grammy Award winner’s hit 2017 song “Shape of You” was partially copied from a tune that was rele…

Andrew Sutcliffe, the lawyer for the co-writers of “Oh Why,” argued that there was an “indisputable similarity between the works.”

The plaintiffs alleged that the refrain “Oh I, Oh I, Oh I” in the chorus of “Shape Of You” was “strikingly similar” to the line “Oh why, Oh why, Oh why” in their track. A British judge rejected the plaintiff’s claims that Sheeran lifted parts of a 2015 song for his hit “Shape of You.”In Wednesday’s ruling, High Court Judge Antony Zacaroli concluded that Sheeran “neither deliberately nor subconsciously” copied a phrase from “Oh Why” when writing his smash hit.

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