British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has won his copyright trial at London's High Court after a judge ruled that his hit song "Shape of You" did not lift musical phrases from another track.                  

Judge Antony Zacaroli said that Sheeran "neither deliberately nor subconsciously" copied a phrase from British grime track, "Oh Why", when writing the worldwide smash hit.                 

"Shape of You", released in 2017, remains the most-streamed song ever on Spotify, with more than three billion streams.                   

Sheeran and the song's other credited writers in 2018 launched legal action against Chokri and McDaid, asking the High Court to declare they had not infringed Chokri and O'Donoghue's copyright.                 

This prompted the pair to launch their own claim for "copyright infringements, damages and an account of the profit in relation to the alleged infringement".