Ed Sheeran has won a copyright lawsuit over his song “Shape of You.” Artist Sami Chokri, known as Sami Switch, claimed Sheeran’s 2017 hit plagiarized his 2015 song “Oh Why.”

After an 11-day trial, judge ruled Sheeran had “neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied” Chokri’s song and that while there were “similarities between the one-bar phrase” they were “only a starting point for a possible infringement” of copyright, according to BBC News.

This decision comes after a wave of copyright infringement cases against well-known musicians. Yet, it also demonstrates that claims of this nature are difficult to succeed on in court, given both the burden of establishing copying and the growing recognition that many pop melodies and lyrics are commonplace across the industry.

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