Members of 2 Live Crew have called on a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against them by Florida-based Lil Joe Records and to confirm that they can terminate a 1980s record deal and reclaim the rights in all the recordings released under that deal.The music under dispute was originally released by Luke Records, the label run by 2 Live Crew member Luther Campbell. They were then acquired by Lil Joe Records – along with other copyrights and trademarks controlled by the group – in 1996 when both Campbell and Luke Records went bankrupt.Under US copyright law, if a creator assigns – so transfers – a copyright to a business partner, that assignment can be terminated 35 years later, allowing the creator to reclaim their rights.
Dua Lipa hits back at another of the Levitating song-theft lawsuits
16.11.2022 - 16:59 / completemusicupdate.com
Lawyers for Dua Lipa have said that a lawsuit claiming that her 2020 hit ‘Levitating’ rips off an earlier song is “speculative”, “vague” and “devoid of a shred of factual detail”. And if that sounds familiar, it’s similar to the criticism Dua Lipa’s lawyers made of another lawsuit also accusing her of ripping off an earlier song when writing ‘Levitating’.Because, yes, ‘Levitating’ is subject to two concurrent song-theft lawsuits, which is fun.
And one of those lawsuits actually accuses Lipa of borrowing from two separate songs when writing her hit, so that’s a total of three songs that were allegedly ripped off by Lipa and her team in the making of one track. Quite the achievement!The lawsuit responded to my Lipa’s attorneys this week relates to just one possibly ripped off song: 2017’s ‘Live Your Life’ by Artikal Sound System.
The Florida-based band sued Lipa and her label in March reckoning they are both liable for copyright infringement because of the way ‘Levitating’ apparently borrows from ‘Live Your Life’.The outfit’s initial legal filing was pretty concise compared to most song-theft lawsuits which usually have tediously long sections running through the beats and notes and lyrics that the new song has in common with the old song. It also didn’t have a particularly well formed theory as for how Lipa and her collaborators accessed ‘Live Your Life’.All of which means the disparaging formal response from Lipa’s lawyers this week is not surprising. According to Billboard, they wrote that “plaintiffs fail to allege a single fact that identifies what material from ‘Live Your Life’ is copied in ‘Levitating’”.The original lawsuit stated that “given the degree of similarity, it is highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was
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