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she claimedhe “sexually, physically, verbally, and emotionally abused [her] to the point where [she] nearly lost her life” in 2005.“Only God knows what happened that night,” Kesha, 36, wrote in her part of the joint statement posted to social media. “As I always said, I cannot recount everything that happened. I am looking forward to closing the door on this chapter of my life and beginning a new one.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Much of the music industry heaved a collective sigh of relief when the news broke Thursday that Ed Sheeran was found not liable on a copyright claim alleging that he copied key elements from the Marvin Gaye ‘70s hit “Let’s Get It On” for his own song “Thinking Out Loud.” The case is one of countless similar infringement cases that have been brought before courts, settled, or continue in seemingly endless loops of appeals. But there’s little question that recent ones — at least the ones that followed the 2015 “Blurred Lines” decision that shook the industry — have sided with creators. The lawsuit around Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” went on for five years before being decided initially in favor of Christian rapper Marcus Gray — who claimed her song was substantially similar to his earlier track “Joyful Noise” — but was overturned in 2020 when a judge ruled that the eight-note “ostinato” Perry allegedly copied lacked the “quantum of originality” to warrant copyright protection (Gray’s appeal was unsuccessful). Later in 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the long-running copyright battle over Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” leaving in place a ruling that rejected infringement allegations over the 1971 song. The justices denied a petition aimed at reviving the case, ending six years of litigation over claims that the song’s writers, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, plagiarized the song’s iconic intro from the 1968 song “Taurus” by the group Spirit.

Lawyers for Dua Lipa have set out some key arguments for why one of the song theft lawsuits filed in relation to her 2020 hit ‘Levitating’ should be dismissed. Basically there is simply no evidence Dua Lipa and her collaborators had ever heard the two songs they are accused of ripping off.Because, yes, in the second of two copyright lawsuits targeting ‘Levitating’, plaintiffs L Russell Brown and Sandy Linze claimed that Lipa’s track actually lifted elements from two songs they wrote back in the day: 1979’s ‘Wiggle And Giggle All Night’ and 1980’s ‘Don Diablo’.But, Lipa’s lawyer Christine Lepera wrote in a letter to the court earlier this week, “the alleged similarities – a descending scale in which each pitch is repeated on evenly spaced notes, and a common clave rhythm – are unprotectable, and the result of the coincidental use of basic musical building blocks”.

Kesha is speaking out in a new filing.

Kanye West has been sued for alleged copyright infringement over use of a sample on a track from his Donda 2 album.Ye, 45, was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court of using a sample from the 1986 Marshall Jefferson house track Move Your Body, aka The House Music Anthem, without prior permission or paying compensation in his song Flowers, according to an article on Thursday by Billboard.The sample is 'repeated at least 22 times throughout' the song, according to a complaint filed by Jefferson's publisher Ultra International Music Publishing in US District Court in New York. Copyright lawsuit:Kanye West, shown in May in New York City, has been sued for alleged copyright infringement over use of a sample on a track from his Donda 2 albumJefferson, 62, wrote and performed Move Your Body that peaked at number 34 on Billboard's Dance Singles Sales chart in August 1986.Move Your Body first became popular in Jefferson's hometown of Chicago before it was released by Trax Records in July 1986.

Post Malone to have a lawsuit over his 2019 hit ‘Circles’ dismissed.US District Judge Otis D. Wright II declined to rule from the bench on Malone’s dismissal motion after an afternoon hearing in Los Angeles yesterday (April 11), but the federal judge made it clear he was still anticipating a trial on May 17, reports Rolling Stone.It comes after Canadian songwriter Tyler Armes previously filed a federal lawsuit in California listing Post (real name Austin Post), Post’s producer Frank Dukes, and Universal Music Group as defendants.

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