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(CNN) --
British musician Ed Sheeran has won a high-profile copyright case for his 2017 hit song "Shape of You."
In a London High Court verdict on Wednesday, a judge ruled that Sheeran did not copy artist Sami Switch's song "Oh Why."
Switch, whose legal name is Sami Chokri, claimed that Sheeran plagiarized a key part of the song from 2015.
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In his verdict, Judge Zacaroli wrote that he was satisfied Sheeran did not deliberately or unknowingly copy elements of Switch's "Oh Why."
Sheeran was accused of copyright infringement before.
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In 2016, he was sued over his single "Photograph" which was settled out of court, and was indicted more than once for his hit "Thinking Out Loud" which started the same year.
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