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Ed Sheeran case updates

Ed Sheeran has featured in two high-profile claims that were decided in the UK and US respectively in 2022 and 2023.

Settled

Casey Dienel, aka White Hinterland vs Justin Bieber, Skrillex and others

Artist Casey Dienel, who also records under the name White Hinterland brought a case against Justin Bieber in May 2016, alleging that Bieber's 2015 hit single ‘Sorry’ copied Dienel's vocal loop from her 2014 song ‘Ring the Bell’. The allegedly ...

Decided

Frederic Austin vs Columbia Gramophone Co.

The first 20th century infringement case concerns an arrangement of the same public domain material by two separate musicians. Polly was an opera written by librettist John Gay and composer Johann Christoph Pepusch in 1728 and published by ...


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