15 celebrities with lawsuits that made front page news

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4) Ed Sheeran vs Sam Chokri & Ross O’Donoghue

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In 2022, Ed Sheeran was taken to court on a case of plagiarism for allegedly borrowing the "Oh I" hook of the song by grime artist Sam Chokri and producer Ross O'Donoghue in his record-breaking hit Shape of You. The latter claimed that the hook of his track was impressively similar. Yet at a 2022 trial, the judge ruled it in favor of Sheeran, stating that nothing proved that there was "deliberate or unconscious copying." The case yet again brought to light worries relating to intellectual property in music productions

Edited by Apoorva Jujjavarapu
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