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6th April 2022
10:36am BST

Judge Antony Zacaroli ruled that Sheeran had "neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied" the song and while he acknowledged there were "similarities between the one-bar phrase" between the two songs, they were only enough for "a starting point for a possible infringement" of copyright.
The case itself was taken up back in 2018 after the song had already become the best-selling track of 2017, sat at number one for 12 consecutive weeks and has gone on earn over three billion streams.Explore more on these topics: