Dua Lipa to go to courtroom for a 3rd time over hit music Levitating

Dua Lipa must go to courtroom for a 3rd time over her hit music Levitating.

A choose in New York dominated that the British pop star should face a lawsuit accusing her of copying her 2021 megahit from a 1979 disco music.

US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla mentioned songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer may attempt to show “substantial similarity” between Levitating and their music Wiggle and Giggle All Night.

The lawsuit, filed in March final yr, claimed that Levitating shared “compositional elements” with Wiggle, most importantly by duplicating its opening melody.

Lipa’s legal professionals argued that it was implausible to imagine that the 27-year-old had heard Wiggle earlier than writing Levitating.

Judge Failla agreed, however mentioned the plaintiffs alleged “just enough facts” to argue that the songs had been so “strikingly similar,” together with by sharing a “repetitive rhythm” and “signature melody,” that Lipa should have copied theirs.

“The court cannot foreclose the possibility of plaintiffs meeting the undoubtedly high bar of proving striking similarity,” Failla wrote.

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In a press release, Jason Brown, a lawyer for Brown and Linzer, mentioned they “have nice respect for the artists of as we speak but when their materials is used there should be correct attribution and compensation.

“We look forward to conducting discovery and taking this case to trial.”

Failla’s opinion doesn’t cowl the plaintiffs’ declare that Levitating copied one other music, Don Diablo, to which in addition they owned a copyright.

Levitating, from Lipa’s album Future Nostalgia, spent 77 weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100 US singles chart, and was the primary music on Billboard’s 2021 year-end chart.

The music peaked at quantity 5 within the UK Charts.

In June, a federal choose in Los Angeles dismissed a lawsuit accusing Lipa of copying Levitating from a 2017 music by the Florida reggae group Artikal Sound System.

Another lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on 31 July claimed that Lipa by no means bought permission from the musician Bosko Kante to incorporate his “talk box” recording in remixes of Levitating.

Lawyers for Lipa and Warner Records haven’t but commented.