Singer
Dua Lipa has landed in a legal soup in a copyright lawsuit that has been filed over her track 'Levitating'.
As per report, songwriters L. Russell
Brown
and
Sandy Linzer
filed a complaint in Manhattan federal court, accusing
Lipa
of copying their 1979 song 'Wiggle and Giggle All Night' and 1980 song 'Don Diablo'.
The songwriters claimed that the opening melody to 'Levitating' was a 'duplicate' of the melody to their songs.
"Defendants have levitated away plaintiffs' intellectual property. Plaintiffs bring suit so that defendants cannot wiggle out of their willful infringement," lawyers for Brown and
Linzer
wrote in their complaint.
The new lawsuit claimed that the "signature melody" from the beginning of 'Levitating' -- starting just a few seconds into the song when Lipa begins singing, "If you wanna run away with me..." -- copied a similar portion of the earlier songs.
'Levitating' was released in 2020.
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