Ed Sheeran, Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid and Steve Mac win 'painful' Shape of You copyright trial
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officialcharts.comEd Sheeran, Steve Mac and Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid have won their High Court copyright battle over 2017 Number 1 single Shape of You.
Judge Antony Zacaroli ruled that the songwriters had not deemed a plagiarism of grime artist Sami Chokri's 2015 track Oh Why.
Chokri - who goes by the stage name Sami Switch - had claimed Shape of You's 'Oh I' hook was 'strikingly similar' to the 'Oh why' segment of his own song.
Mr. Justice Zacaroli, however, ruled Sheeran, Mac and McDaid had 'neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied' Chokri's track.
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