Here's what to know about DuaLipa's copyright accusations.
came from a Florida reggae band named Artikal Sound System, which claimed Lipa lifted the core hook for her song from their 2015 “Live Your Life.” The complaint was pretty light on details – it didn’t make any attempt to explain why Lipa would have heard the little-known song – but said the two were so similar that it was “highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently.”was filed a few days later, when songwriters L.
The cases are a big deal, if for no other reason than “Levitating” is a big deal. The song has spent 68 weeks and counting on the Billboard Hot 100, was named the No. 1 Hot 100 song of 2021, and is the longest-running top 10 song ever by a female artist. In that sense, the new lawsuits call to mind the summer of 2013, when Robin Thicke’s then-chart-topping “Blurred Lines” becameThat won’t be the last comparison to the “Blurred Lines” case you hear.
But the real battle line in the cases might be less about similar sounds and more about the limits of protectability – about whether the stuff she allegedly borrowed from the earlier songs is even covered by copyright law at all. Did Lipa copy unique and protectible expression? Or just use common musical tropes? We’ll soon find out.
On a practical level, it’s at least a little surprising that the cases didn’t settle before they got to court – like when
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