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‘I don’t want a fight’: the Brazilian samba composer suing Adele for plagiarism
Toninho Geraes has alleged in a lawsuit the British pop star plagiarised his track Mulheres in her Million Years Ago song
On 13 December, a first-instance judge granted an injunction ordering Million Years Ago, by Adele and Kurstin, to be pulled worldwide – including from streaming services – in an unprecedented decision that made headlines in Latin America’s largest country. He represents the claimant, Toninho Geraes, 62, a prolific samba composer who alleges that Adele’s 2015 song plagiarises his Mulheres(Women), recorded by the Brazilian singer Martinho da Vila on a hit album in 1995. In his first decision, the Brazilian judge ordered streaming platforms such as Spotify and YouTube to “immediately remove” the song from their online catalogue, but later ruled that the responsibility would fall solely on the defendants, under penalty of a daily fine of £6,500 “per act of non-compliance”.
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