Dua Lipa, a British Pop star, will face a lawsuit claiming she copied the 2021 megahit ‘Levitating’. She must encounter a lawsuit indicting her of copying her megahit ‘Levitating’ from a disco song from 1970, a federal judge in Manhattan said.
Katherine Polk Failla, US District Judge said on Tuesday that songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer could attempt to demonstrate “considerable similarity” between “Levitating” and their song “Wiggle and Giggle All Night.”
While Lipa’s lawyers didn’t respond to requests for comment
The lawsuit that was filed in March 2022, argued that “Levitating” shared “compositional elements” with “Wiggle,” most particularly by copying its intro melody.
Defense lawyers claimed that it was improbable to consider that the 27-year-old Pop star listened to “Wiggle” before composing “Levitating.”
Failla admit but she said that the plaintiffs alleged “just enough facts” to claim that the melodies were so “strikingly similar,” including by sharing a “repetitive rhythm” and “signature melody,” that Lipa must have duplicated theirs. The court cannot foreclose the prospect of plaintiffs meeting the certainly high bar of demonstrating remarkable resemblance, Failla added.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs, Jason Brown, said in a statement that they have huge respect for today’s artists but if their stuff is used there must be appropriate attribution and settlement. We look ahead to executing discovery and taking this suit to trial.”
