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Dua Lipa is presently dealing with two copyright infringement complaints over “Levitating.” Now, it seems that the 27-year-old singer’s authorized group has taken steps to consolidate the actions.
This newest improvement within the litigation involving “Levitating,” which has racked up north of two billion complete streams on Spotify, got here to gentle in a new filing from the counsel of Dua Lipa, Sony Music Publishing, and several other different defendants.
Relating to the considerably related courtroom confrontations’ background particulars, March noticed 5 members of a 12-year-old reggae band known as Artikal Sound System sue Dua Lipa and her fellow “Levitating” songwriters in California. These defendants, Artikal Sound claimed, had lifted parts of 2017’s “Live Your Life” with out permission to create “Levitating.”
“Given the diploma of similarity,” the plaintiffs wrote, “it’s extremely unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently from ‘Dwell Your Life.’”
In the meantime, the opposite “Levitating” swimsuit was submitted to a New York federal courtroom later that very same month.
Within the newer of the instances – which Dua Lipa’s authorized group pushed back against in late August – the plaintiffs alleged that “Levitating” is “considerably related” to 1979’s “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” (which was recorded by Cory Daye) and 1980’s Spanish-language “Don Diablo” (which was recorded by Miguel Bosé).
“The ‘Levitating’ writers by no means heard the LS Compositions,” Dua Lipa’s attorneys wrote in assist of their movement to dismiss the lawsuit. “The alleged similarities – a descending scale wherein every pitch is repeated on evenly spaced notes, and a standard clave rhythm – are unprotectible, and the results of the coincidental use of primary musical constructing blocks. However the Courtroom needn’t attain these issues, as a result of the Criticism fails to state a declare.”
As talked about on the outset, new filings have revealed that Dua Lipa’s legal professionals are transferring to consolidate the actions in a single courtroom.
Particularly, Dua Lipa’s counsel within the New York grievance relayed in a current replace to the presiding choose that the defendants had sought to switch the opposite case from California.
“We write to offer an extra replace that the Cope Defendants filed a movement to switch the Cope Motion to the Southern District of New York on November 14, 2022, in search of for each actions to be maintained in a single discussion board,” the textual content reads. “We are going to proceed to replace the Courtroom as to the standing of that movement.”
Earlier this month, Disney was named in an infringement suit over a music featured in Frozen II, whereas Lawrence Muggerud (higher often called DJ Muggs) closed out October by dropping his copyright grievance in opposition to Peloton.
