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Sheeran wrote Shape Of You with Snow Patrol’s John McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon, and they all denied ripping off the song by Sami Chokri.

The singer and his Shape Of Your co-writers had been accused of ripping off the song Oh Why by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue.

Grammy Award-winning songwriter Ed Sheeran has won a UK copyright battle over the 2017 hit "Shape of You." The British pop star and his co-writers, Snow Patrol’s John McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon, had denied allegations that the 2017 song copied part of 2015's "Oh Why" by Sami Chokri, who…

British singer ‘neither deliberately nor subconsciously’ copied a phrase from song by Sami Chokri, judge says

Ruling made on Wednesday morning

The singer and co-writers John McDaid and Steven McCutcheon were accused of ripping off Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue’s 2015 song Oh Why.

Following an extraordinary hearing which saw millionaire chart topper Ed Sheeran belt out his own songs from the stand, a judge has ruled that the singer did not copy another song, for his own 2017 hit Shape of You.

Judge cleared singer of plagiarism on Wednesday morning

British star issues emotional statement after High Court judge rules that he and his co-writers did not plagiarise Sami Chokri’s 2015 track ‘Oh Why’