Ed Sheeran has broken his silence and issued a joint statement after he won a High Court battle over one of his hit songs. A judge ruled that the singer's 2017 track Shape Of You does not infringe another artist's copyright.
At a trial last month (March), Sheeran 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.
The singer-songwriter and his co-authors originally launched legal proceedings in May 2018, asking the High Court to declare they had not infringed Chokri and O’Donoghue’s copyright. But two months later, Chokri – a grime artist who performs under the name Sami Switch – and O’Donoghue issued their own claim for "copyright infringement, damages and an account of profits in relation to the alleged infringement".
