Pop superstar Dua Lipa is now facing a second copyright infringement lawsuit over her hit song “Levitating.”
According to Billboard, in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer have accused Lipa of copying their 1979 song “Wiggle and Giggle All Night” and 1980 song “Don Diablo.” They claim that the opening melody to “Levitating” was a “duplicate” of the melody to their songs.
“The signature melody is the most listened to and recognizable part of the infringing works and plays a crucial role in their popularity,” the complaint reads. “Because video creators frequently truncate the already brief snippets of sound on TikTok, the signature melody often comprises fifty percent or more of these viral videos.”
Lipa has been slapped with a second lawsuit just days after Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System filed a lawsuit alleging that the British singer’s “Levitating” is a ripoff of their 2017 song “Live Your Life.”
“Levitating” had spent 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was the No. 1 Hot 100 song of 2021. The song was released in 2020 on Lipa’s second studio album Future Nostalgia. It became the longest-running top 10 song ever by a female artist on the chart.
According to court documents, the suit claims that Lipa and the people she was working with heard “Live Your Life” and then proceeded to make a copy of it by creating “Levitating.”
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