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Karol G and Tiësto Defeat ‘Don’t Be Shy’ Copyright Lawsuit
Karol G and Tiësto beat a copyright lawsuit over the song "Don't Be Shy." A judge threw it out, saying the plaintiff’s expert witness was unqualified.
“While his CV highlights substantial experience in the business side of the Latin music industry,” writes the judge of Viera, “none of these roles involves the core competencies of forensic musicology: transcribing compositions, analyzing protectable expression or applying comparative methodologies to determine similarities.” With Viera’s expert report excluded, Lorente-Garcia’s attorneys would have needed to show that the writers of “Don’t be Shy” had access to “Algo Diferente” in order to defeat the summary judgment motion. Lorente-Garcia’s case comes up short on this front, too, according to Judge Altonaga, who says the evidence “reveals little more than ‘Algo Diferente’s’ presence in the digital ether, one among millions of songs” and that “no reasonable jury” could find that Tiësto and Karol G heard the track.
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