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Sheeran awarded costs for 'Shape of You' copyright win
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‘Smash hit’: British singer Ed Sheeran poses on the red carpet prior to the 23rd NRJ Music Awards ceremony at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, south-eastern France, on Nov. 20, 2021. Sheeran won his copyright trial at London's High Court on April 6 after a judge ruled that his hit song (AFP/Valery Hache)
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High Court judge in London on Tuesday awarded Ed Sheeran and his co-songwriters more than £900,000 in legal costs after winning a copyright trial over his hit "Shape of You".
The 31-year-old Sheeran was taken to court and accused of copying a phrase from the British grime track "Oh Why" when writing the worldwide smash.
But judge Antony Zacaroli ruled in April this year after an 11-day trial that the star "neither deliberately nor subconsciously" plagiarised the hook.
On Wednesday, the judge said the artists who brought the claim -- Sami Chokri and Ross O'Donoghue -- should pay legal costs.
He ordered an interim payment of £916,200 ($1.1 million).
Sheeran welcomed the initial ruling but said that "baseless" copyright claims were "damaging the songwriting industry".
