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Roger Daltrey is “glad” Ed Sheeran won his ‘Shape of You’ copyright case. The 31-year-old pop star was taken to court by grime artist Sami Chokri, who claimed that the melody of the 2017 smash hit is “strikingly similar” to that of his 2015 song ‘Oh Why’, but a judge ruled earlier this month that Ed and his collaborators, Johnny McDaid and Steven McCutcheon, had not plagiarised the earlier hit. Judge Antony Zacaroli acknowledged there were “similarities between the one-bar phrase” in ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Oh Why’ but said “such similarities are only a starting point for a possible infringement” …