Dua Lipa is facing copyright infringement suit on her song ‘Levitating’ for the second time by the songwriters of ‘Wiggle and Giggle All Night’ for copying the melody.
It has come to know that the artist Dua Lipa is facing another copyright infringement lawsuit against her song ‘Levitating’.
‘Levitating’ is a song that has achieved no.2 in Billboard Hot 100 at the very beginning of the release, and later at the Year-End Chart, it got into the no.1 position of Billboard’s Hot 100.
The second lawsuit has been filed less than a week ago by the songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer. They are claiming that the intro music has been duplicated from the 1979 song ‘Wiggle and Giggle All Night’ and the 1980 song ‘Don Diablo’.
The artists are saying that the notes and rhythms are exactly the same as their track.
According to court documents obtained by the outlet, the suit claims that Dua and the people she was working with heard ‘Live Your Life’ and then proceeded to make a copy of it by creating ‘Levitating’.
The first complaint was from a Florida reggae band called Artikal Sound System. They have accused Dua Lipa of taking the production aspect of the song ‘Live Your Life’. Lipa hasn’t commented anything on this topic till now.
Complaints like these are a very serious matter of song stealing, and it would be very hard to win such cases.
Lawyers of L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer have stated that the intro part has become more famous and viral, which has been used in TikTok videos.
As evidence for the case, the songwriters included Dua’s interviews where she ‘admitted that she deliberately emulated prior eras’ as well as reviews from music journalists who noted the similarities between ‘Levitating’ and ‘Wiggle and Giggle All Night.’
Forensic musicologist Judith Finell said that the songs have a similar sound to them, but none of the songs are copyright protected.
For example, he said that in 2015, a judge ordered Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay nearly $5 million to Marvin Gaye’s estate after a jury determined that their song ‘Blurred Lines’ infringed on Gaye’s ‘Got to Give It Up’.
Finell also stated, ‘There are many, many songs that share those features and never end up in court’.
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