{"id":2745,"date":"2022-04-08T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T09:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tidmanlegal.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2023-07-27T22:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T21:22:34","slug":"ed-sheeran-wins-shape-of-you-copyright-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tidmanlegal.com\/ed-sheeran-wins-shape-of-you-copyright-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran wins Shape of You copyright case"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ed Sheeran has won a High Court music copyright battle over his popular 2017 hit Shape of You.<\/p>\n
A judge ruled on Wednesday that the singer-songwriter had not plagiarised the 2015 song Oh Why by Sami Chokri.<\/p>\n
Chokri, a grime artist who performs under the name Sami Switch, had claimed the “Oh I” hook in Sheeran’s track was “strikingly similar” to an “Oh why” refrain in his own track.<\/p>\n
Following the ruling, Sheeran said such “baseless” claims “are way too common”.<\/p>\n
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