Why Ed Sheeran's court victory sounds good for the music industry
- Written by Hayleigh Bosher, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Brunel University London
There’s a good chance you’ve heard a song by Ed Sheeran called Shape of You. It’s been streamed over 3 billion times on Spotify and viewed over 5 billion times on YouTube.
The song Oh Why, by Sam Chokri, is less well known. But Chokri claimed that Sheeran had copied it when composing his hugely successful track.
That long-running...