Dua Lipa wins the issues of copyright on lifting

Mark Savage

Music correspondent

Dua Leipa is currently on her Australian leg for the world's radical optimism tour for a year

Getty Images Dua LIPA sings in the microphone during a tour. She wears black black lace and large necklace earrings, with a fake white fur on her left shoulder. — Dua Leipa is currently on her Australian leg for the world's radical optimism tour for a year

Dua Lipa won the dismissal of a lawsuit accused of her solo copies, which filed two other songs.

A lawsuit was filed against the star in 2022 by the Book of Songs Lossell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who accused her of stealing the Disco path 1979 Looking and laughing all night And the 1980s Don Diablo.

On Thursday, American judge Catherine Polk Villa ruled that songs had only general similarities, including non -published musical elements that were previously used by Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, and bee Geees in their song.

This is the second time that Leipa has wrapped the plagiarism over the lifting, which was a global success in 2020.

It was the prosecution by the Florida Rigi Artkal Sound, who claimed that Leipa had separated from a choir for her song from the 2015 path Live your life.

Their case was dropped in 2023 after the judge stated that there was no evidence that “Lipa” and its participants' book “reaching” to the previous song – a major demand for any copyright lawsuit.

However, she still faces a third legal challenge on the song, from the musician Busco Kanti – a distinguished artist on Levitating, who sang through a discussion box.

Fif a lawsuit in 2023, He said that his contribution was used to reformulate the song without permission.

KANTE is looking for no less than $ 2 million (1.5 million pounds) in addition to interest, in addition to profits from reinstating operations, which are at least $ 20 million (15 million pounds).

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The Brown and Linzer case claimed that Leipa stole the opening melody to lift, as it sings:If you want to escape with me, I know a galaxy and I can take you to ride.“

They called the melody and “duplicate” of their own songs.

But Judge Villa wrote that the elements were very common so that they could not be protected under the law.

The judge wrote: “The court finds that the musical style, which the prosecutors define as” Bob with a disco feeling “, and a musical function, determined by the prosecutors to include” entertainment and dance “, cannot be protective.”

“The adherence to that will be fully imprisoning the mortgage to develop music in this type or for this.”

Coincidentally, the referee came on the fifth anniversary of the levitating release, initially as an album on LIPA album, Future Nostalgia.

In a statement to the music industry, Brown Lenzer's lawyers said they “do not approve” the decision and resume appeal.

BBC has Dua LIPA to respond.