Ed Sheeran has previously revealed his disturbing experience of an 11-month grueling copyright case around his 2017 hit song Shape of You.
The songwriter, Snow Patrol’s John McDaid, and producer Steven McCutcheon were summoned to copy the 2015 track Oh Why by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue for their melody.
In the first interview after the verdict, Sheeran told BBC Two’s Newsnight that he had no option but to defend his work in front of a judge.
“You can get a judgment or you can have a settlement and [when] you know that you’re in the right, then you can’t settle just out of principle. You can’t settle,” he remarked.
The court, nevertheless, controlled on Wednesday that Sheeran had “neither deliberately nor subconsciously” plagiarized the song Oh My.
His following win, the hit-maker describe that the case had been about “honesty” and “not money”.
He also included that he is glad that it ended and “we can move on, and get back to writing songs” though he admitted that this whole episode had made him depressed and changed his perspective about songwriting.
“I think the best feeling in the world is the euphoria of writing a great song and now that feeling has turned into second-guessing yourself,” he explained.
The Perfect singer opens up in an interview that he now “films all of his songwriting sessions to protect against future claims”.
The 31-year-old also cracked in that this grueling 11-month of trial truly took a toll on their creativity and now since it had come to an end, the singer and his team felt relaxed.
