Dua Lipa hit with second copyright lawsuit over Levitating with songwriters claiming she ‘copied’ their songs

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Dua Lipa is reportedly facing a second copyright lawsuit for her song Levitating, just days after another band accused her of lifting their material.Last week, the One Kiss icon was sued by reggae band Artikal Sound System after they claimed her 2020 smash hit Levitating was a ‘rip off’ of their song Live Your Life.The band names Dua, her label Warner Records and others as defendants in the case, and are seeking to claim any profits made on the song plus damages.Should they be successful, they would come into a fair amount of money, considering the track spent an impressive 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and was the number one Hot 100 song of 2021.Now the 26-year-old has been hit with yet another lawsuit, from two other songwriters claiming Dua copied their track.According to The Hollywood Reporter, songwriters L.

Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer have filed a copyright lawsuit against the musician, claiming she copied two of their songs to create Levitating.A complaint reportedly filed in Manhattan federal court accuses Dua of copying their 1979 track Wiggle and Giggle All Night performed by Cory Day, and 1980 song Don Diablo, performed by Miguel Bosé.According to the songwriters, the opening melody to Levitating is a ‘duplicate’ of their songs.Their complaint, seen by the outlet, makes references to two of the songs at the centre of the case, with lawyers for Brown and Linzer writing that Dua has ‘levitated away plaintiffs’ intellectual property’, and will be unable to ‘wiggle out of their willful infringement’.