An order signed by Judge James Selna of the US District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, states that a copyright case, in which
Ed Sheeran was being
sued for plagiarism in his massive hit song Photograph, has been dismissed after an undisclosed agreement had been reached between the parties. In other words, Sheeran has settled the $20m case by songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington who claimed that large portions of Photograph were copied "note-for-note" from their song, Amazing, released by X Factor winner Matt Cardle five years earlier.