The High Court of London discovered by mistake on Tuesday in preview the excerpt from an unreleased song by Ed Sheeranmuch to the surprise of the British musician who is being tried for plagiarism on his smash hit “Shape Of You.”
“It’s a song I wrote last January. How did you obtain it?”, the 31-year-old pop star exclaimed, addressing his lawyers on the third day of a trial that began on Friday and is due to last three weeks.
One of them, Ian Mill, later explained that the song had been played “by mistake” on Steven McCutcheon’s computercomposer and co-defendant, which “contains unpublished”.
Sheeran, McCutcheon and their partner John McDaid were accused by two composersSami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue, of being partially inspired by their song “Oh Why” for the melody of their planetary hit “Shape Of You”, the best-selling song in the world in 2017. They deny it.
In 2017 Ed Sheeran he was also the best selling artist in the world, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), with his third album “Divide”, which includes the single “Shape of You”. (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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