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Dua Lipa wins copyright lawsuit as US judge rules 'Levitating' was not copied from 1979 disco song
The British-Albanian singer is in Australia on the latest leg of her Radical Optimism world tour and managed to enjoy some down time at Tamarama Beach, Sydney, with friends.
The lawsuit, filed in 2022 by American songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, claimed that Levitating copied the melody from their 1979 compositions Wiggle And Giggle All Night and 1980’s Don Diablo. On Thursday, US district judge Katherine Polk Failla, sitting in Manhattan, New York, ruled that similarities between Ms Lipa’s and the plaintiffs’ songs were generic and involved musical elements that could not be protected. In 2023 a lawsuit filed by Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System was dismissed after a judge found no evidence that Ms Lipa and her co-writers had access to the group’s 2015 track Live Your Life, which they alleged was copied.
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