Ed Sheeran settles $20 MILLION DOLLAR lawsuit after being accused of copying Matt Cardle’s song

Ed Sheeran has settled out of court a copyright infringement lawsuit after he was accused of copying a Matt Cardle song[Stefania D’Alessandro/Getty Images]

The British singer was accused by the writers of Matt Cardle’s single, “Amazing,” of “note-for-note copying” the song.

Songwriters Thomas Leonard and Martin Harrington claimed that Ed and Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid’s song “Photograph” was a near “verbatim” rip off of the 2012 song they had written for The X Factor …