Ed Sheeran said his recent copyright High Court battle was about ‘standing up for what was right’, as he said he had ‘no choice’ in defending his work.
The singer and co-writer Johnny McDaid faced accusations that their hugely successful hit Shape of You had ripped off the 2015 song Oh Why by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue, and the trial began in London last month.
After 11 days, Ed was vindicated when a judge concluded that the multi-award-winning artist “neither deliberately nor subconsciously” copied a phrase from Oh Why, and ruled that Ed had not plagiarised the track.
