James Arthur has 'settled a copyright lawsuit with The Script after plagiarism ...

James Arthur has settled a copyright lawsuit with The Script over his hit track Say You Won't Let Go. 

The former X factor star faced a legal dispute from the Irish band after they claimed the song was 'too similar' to their 2008 chart-topper The Man Who Can't Be Moved. 

According to The Mirror, the terms of the settlement are unknown after both sides agreed not to speak publicly about the deal. 

MailOnline has contacted James' and The Script's representatives for comment. 

Although the exact terms of the settlement are unknown, The Script's frontman Danny O’Donoghue and the band's guitarist Mark Sheehan have been added as songwriters on James' most popular song. 

The Mirror reports that a source from the music industry said the settlement went ahead in December 2018. 

Lawyers allegedly filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles in May but an agreement was not reached until the end of the year.  

Back in 2018, when the lawsuit first came to light, James publicly hit back at the lawsuit during a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge appearance when he added his own verse to Jorja Smith's Blue Light.

The Impossible hitmaker was covering the BRIT winner's single when he added his own spin to the song and called out the Irish trio, referring to them as 'jealous' and 'snakes'.

Having performed his new song You Deserve Better first, James then launched into the hit, which he meshed with Dua Lipa's One Kiss, and insisted that the Dublin band will never see a 'dime'.

He began: 'Did you see – tho’ desperate men call for desperate times. But they will never see a single flipping dime of mine.

'I’m dynamite; every

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