Ed Sheeran Wins “Shape of You” Plagiarism Case
Ed Sheeran and his team have officially won the ongoing, high-profile copyright case filed over his 2017 hit track "Shape of You." Artist Sami Chokri, AKA Sami Switch, filed a claim against Sheeran for suspected plagiarism of his 2015 song "Oh Why." The trial lasted 11 days, and the judge ruled that Sheeran had "neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied" Chokri's song and that while there were "similarities between the one-bar phrase" […]