Ed Sheeran won a U.K. copyright battle over his 2017 hit "Shape of You," then slammed what he described as a "culture" of baseless lawsuits.
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The British pop star and his co-writers, Snow Patrol's John McDaid and producer Steven McCutcheon, had denied allegations that the song copied part of 2015's "Oh Why" by Sami Chokri, who performs under the name Sami Switch.
Andrew Sutcliffe, the lawyer for the co-writers of "Oh Why,'' argued that there was an "indisputable similarity between the works." He claimed that Sheeran had "Oh Why" in his head "consciously or unconsciously" when "Shape of You" was written in 2016.
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