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Dua Lipa Wins ‘Levitating’ Copyright Case With Ruling Dismissing Infringement Lawsuit

Dua Lipa won one of the "Levitating" copyright cases against her as the judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by two songwriters.

The judge said that some of the material Brown and Linzer claimed Lipa stole — like a “patter style” featuring rapid singing of one syllable per note — had been “used for centuries” and existed in operas by Mozart and operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan. The judge said another allegedly infringing element, a rapid tempo, was also “common” and had appeared identically in “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. Released on Dua Lipa’s 2020 album Future Nostalgia, “Levitating” spent a whopping 41 weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100 — the longest ever such run for a female artist — and was later named the No.

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