Ed Sheeran, accused of plagiarism for Shape of you

A songwriter’s worst nightmare just reached Ed Sheeran too. The 31-year-old British singer-songwriter, in fact, was already ended up in the saloon on charges of plagiarism in 2016 for Photograph (with out-of-court settlement, with a request for about 20 million dollars) and in 2018 for Thinking out loud (with process in progress) and now it happens to the song too Shape of youwhich in December was his first hit to reach 3 billion streams on Spotify.

Sami Shoukry and Ross O’Donoghue swear he used their song Oh Why 2015 for his refrain and dragged him into a legal battle that promises to be pretty tough. Started in May 2018, it went to court in London days ago. In front of the English high court, room 15 at the Rolls Building in London, last Tuesday the star denied all the accusations, saying that he often shared the genesis of some verses with even little-known artists, as in the case of Shivers and Visiting Hours, for example. With him during the hearing, the two colleagues with whom she wrote Shape of you, that is Steve Mac and Johnny McDaid of Show Patrol.

The Daily Mail reports that Ed Sheeran talked about a rather instinctive creative process for the realization of the song, to the point that he throws the ideas in a couple of hours and sometimes records them the same day.

Meanwhile the single was released last week Bam Bam by Camila Cabello to whom the artist with over 37 million followers on Instagram has collaborated. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran, with assets estimated at a value of about 147 million pounds, said he was severely damaged by the accusations, which, moreover, would cost him staggering figures in the field of copyright.

During the trial he was defined by the prosecutor as a “magpie” (thief), who borrows ideas from others “thinking of getting away with it”. No way: the singer has always replied that he has never heard the song Oh Why and firmly denies all allegationseven when both songs were played in the classroom.