The High Court in London (United Kingdom) discovered exclusively – and by mistake – a piece of an unreleased piece by Ed Sheeran on Tuesday.
The singer has been sued since Friday for plagiarism for his hit “Shape Of You”.
"It's a song I wrote last January," the 31-year-old artist said after the title excerpt echoed in the courtroom.
"How did you get that?"
“, he then asked, turning to his lawyers.
Unreleased titles on a computer at trial
Ed Sheeran is accused by Sami Chokri and Ross O'Donoghue of being partly inspired by their title "Oh Why" for the melody of his world hit "Shape Of You", the best-selling title in the world in 2017. Accusations that the singer and his co-writers, Steven McCutcheon and John McDaid, reject.
One of the singer's lawyers then explained that the unreleased track had been played "by mistake" on Steven McCutcheon's computer, which "contains unreleased tracks".
In 2017, Ed Sheeran was the fastest-selling artist in the world, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), with his album “Divide” which contains “Shape Of You”.
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