Dua Lipa won a ruling Thursday dismissing a copyright lawsuit claiming she copied her smash hit song "Levitating" from two different decades-old songs.
 

The case, filed in 2022 by songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, accused Lipa of ripping off their 1979 song "Wiggle and Giggle All Night" and their 1980 song "Don Diablo." The lawsuit was one of two high-profile copyright cases filed over "Levitating".
 

In her decision, Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled that Lipa's song shared only generic elements with Brown and Linzer's songs — the kind of basic musical building blocks that are not covered by federal copyright law and cannot be owned by any one songwriter. In reaching that conclusion, the judge heavily cited from recent litigation against Ed Sheeran over accusations that his "Thinking Out Loud" infringed Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On." That case also ended with a ruling that Sheeran had used only common, unprotectible elements.

Edited March 27, 20251 yr by Nefertiti0

justice was served!

 

happy 5 year anniversary of future nostalgia everybody.

Let's go!

 

 

Edited March 27, 20251 yr by Raphy23

Oh we're so back, Little Levitators! 

She always wins!

Las Ketchup should sue next 

She went to Katy's school of winning cases 

why did it even have to go to court. the USA is so ****** up. this would NEVER happend in Europe, thats why they only sue in USA.

oh messy era is coming
 

 

Justice is SERVED. this was such a stupid, cashgrab case. 

 

Now let this popgold gem of a song continue thriving in peace

4 hours ago, unclefloprry said:

oh messy era is coming
 

 

Her bad blood, swish swish is coming