ED SHEERAN. Singer Ed Sheeran, who was found in favor of British justice, was accused of plagiarizing a song for his hit “Shape of You”.
British justice agreed with him: Ed Sheeran did not commit plagiarism. This Wednesday, April 06, the High Court in London found that the singer had not copied “neither deliberately nor unknowingly” part of the melody of the song. oh whyby Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue, as the latter accused him, for the needs of his international hit Shape of Youreleased in 2017 and taken from the album ÷. The year of its release, this song was the best-selling song in the world, with more than three billion plays on Spotify and more than 6 billion views on YouTube.
Lawyer for Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue, who accused Ed Sheeran of copying the melody of their song oh why, released in 2015, denounced during the trial an “indisputable resemblance between the works”. It took eleven days for the British justice to deliver its verdict. The defense of Ed Sheeran, who has always rejected these accusations of plagiarism, had seized the High Court in May 2018 to recognize that there had been no copyright infringement. It is now done.
This isn’t the first time Ed Sheeran has been accused of plagiarism by other artists. In 2016, for example, representatives of Marvin Gaye accused the British singer of having copied the song Let’s Get It On for the pipe Thinking Out Loud. The plaintiffs then claimed 85 million euros from Ed Sheeran, accusing him of having borrowed “the melody, the rhythm, the harmonies, the drums, the bass line, the choirs, the tempo, the placement of the syncopations and the loops” of Marvin Gaye’s tube, then quoted the tabloid TMZ.