Duo’s 2019 hit was alleged to have imitated 2015 song Dancing With Strangers, performed by Jordan Vincent
Sam Smith has won a copyright lawsuit filed by songwriters who claimed Smith’s hit Dancing With a Stranger imitated their own track.
The complainants argued that Smith and Normani’s song, co-written with songwriter Jimmy Napes and production duo Stargate, appropriated “lyrics, pitch sequence, melodic contour, metric placement of the syllables, rhythm, feel, and structure”. Smith’s legal team had previously described the legal claim as “rambling,” “nonsensical” and “repetitive”, and that it “relies on hyperbole and ignores established circuit law”.
The victory follows numerous recent wins by Ed Sheeran against songwriters who had claimed he infringed their work. In March 2022, Sheeran won a case against Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue who had claimed his song Shape of You infringed their own track Oh Why. In May 2023 he thenfiled against him over alleged similarities between his song Thinking Out Loud and Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On.
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