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Dua Lipa Wins ‘Levitating’ Copyright Case as Judge Dismisses Lawsuit

A lawsuit against Dua Lipa, alleging she plagiarized two disco songs on "Levitating," has been dismissed.

Lipa’s lawyer had argued that she and the other songwriters “never heard” the song “Wiggle and Giggle” or “Don Diablo.” “The alleged similarities — a descending scale in which each pitch is repeated on evenly spaced notes and a common clave rhythm— are unprotectable, and the result of the coincidental use of basic musical building blocks,” attorney Christine Lepera wrote in 2022. Following Thursday’s dismissal, Lepera tells Rolling Stone, “We are very pleased with the summary judgment decision, and with the Court’s recognition that music building blocks exist and are accessible to all creators.” “Under recent case law — including the [Ed] Sheeran decision — courts have become increasingly focused on what can be dissected and filtered out on paper, rather than what is felt through the music itself,” he tells Rolling Stone.

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