Ed Sheeran has won a copyright lawsuit over his hit single, “Shape of You.”
A U.K. High Court ruled on Wednesday (4-6) that Sheeran had not plagiarized the 2015 song, “Oh Why” by Sami Chokri.
According to the Judge, Sheeran had neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied Chokri’s work. He added that there were similarities between the one-bar phrase in “Shape of You” and “Oh Why,” but said that such similarities are only a starting point for a possible infringement” of copyright.