Set up?
The High Court in London was able to discover by mistake a brief preview of an unreleased track by Ed Sheeran, much to the astonishment of the British singer sued for plagiarism for his hit
Shape Of You
.
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“It's a song I wrote last January. How did you get that?”
he exclaimed, turning to his lawyers on the third day of the trial, which opened on Friday.
Ian Mill, lawyer for Ed Sheeran, explained a few moments later that the unreleased track had been played
"by mistake"
on the computer of Steven McCutcheon, one of the co-writers of
Shape Of You
, which
"contains unreleased tracks"
.
Ed Sheeran, British pop star, is accused by Sami Chokri and Ross O'Donoghue of being partly inspired by their title
Oh Why
for the melody of his planetary
hit Shape Of You
, the best-selling title in the world in 2017 Charges that the singer and his co-authors, Steven McCutcheon and John McDaid, reject.
They had applied in May 2018 to the High Court for it to recognize that there had been no copyright infringement.
Two months later, in July, Chokri and O'Donoghue in turn began legal proceedings against them.
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In 2017, Ed Sheeran was the fastest-selling artist in the world, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry with his third album
Divide
which includes the single
Shape Of You
.