Grammy winner Ed Sheeran faces a $20 million lawsuit, which claims his hit song "Photograph" has "striking similarities" to another song released by British singer Matt Cardle.
CBS News correspondent Jamie Yuccas reports the two songwriters suing Sheeran say the 2014 mega-hit is a rip-off of their ballad, "Amazing," written for Cardel's 2011 album, "Letters." Part of their claim focuses on the similar choruses in the two songs.
Their complaint was filed in a Los Angeles court Wednesday. It says Sheeran and his writing partner "copied and exploited... the work of other active, professional songwriters, on a breathtaking scale, unabashedly taking credit for the work of these songwriters..."
The lawsuit alleges that the chorus of Ed Sheeran's "Photograph" and Matt Cardle's "Amazing" share 39 identical notes.
