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Ed Sheeran is right about British courts

7 April 2022

9:20 PM

7 April 2022

9:20 PM

As they say in the music business, where there’s a hit, there’s a writ. It is something that no one knows better than Ed Sheeran, who yesterday won a legal battle over claims that his song Shape of You plagiarised an earlier song, Oh Why by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue.

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