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Riot Games has marked the occasion with a fake set of “patch notes” for its PC shooter Valorant.In the “patch notes”, Riot Games outlines a Valorant update that would transform the shooter into a hellscape for many of its fans.The fictional update would see Gekko’s “bestie” Wingman gain the ability to pick up and wield guns, while Breeze would become Valorant‘s only playable map.According to the patch, shots fired from each spawn will now shoot directly into the enemy spawn because “map control is mid anyway,” and a “Suss Teammate Mode” would drop players into a version of solo queue with their scoreboard and communications disabled.The fictional Valorant would also bring some good news for Brimstone fans, as the agent’s beard would give a rapid-fire bonus to any agents within his vicinity.Luckily, the update isn’t real — though in the real world, Valorant has had a very busy few weeks.Episode 6 Act 2 of Valorant kicked off in early March and introduced a new agent called Gekko.

Dua Lipa has won the dismissal of a lawsuit that had accused her of copying her 2020 hit track ‘Levitating’ from two other songs.Back in 2022, the pop star was sued by songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer who claimed that Lipa had plagiarised their songs – 1979’s ‘Wiggle And Giggle All Night’ and 1980’s ‘Don Diablo’ while creating ‘Levatiating’.“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 read (via Billboard). “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.” As per BBC, Yesterday (March 27), US Judge Katherine Polk Failla went on to rule that Lipa’s song and L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer songs only had generic similarities along with non-copyrightable musical elements which had been previously used by the likes of Mozart and the Bee Gees in their 1977 hit ‘Stayin’ Alive’.Lipa’s court win marked the second time she had won a plagiarism suit against her hit song.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Dua Lipa scored a legal victory in a copyright lawsuit over her 2020 smash “Levitating” after a judge dismissed the case.

(G)I-DLE recently joined forces with PSY on a cover of the latter’s hit single ‘That That’, originally featuring BTS‘ Suga.The South Korean artists took to the stage of cable network Mnet’s new monthly music progamme Mnet Prime Show, which will see different pairs of artists coming together to work on special joint performances and more.For the show’s debut episode, which aired on March 29, (G)I-DLE performed a fierce cover of PSY’s hit 2022 song ‘That That’, which originally featured Suga. The girl group were later joined by PSY for the song’s final chorus.Meanwhile, for his cover, PSY decided to take on (G)I-DLE’s viral hit ‘Tomboy’.

Dua Lipa has admitted that she feels more in “control” on her forthcoming new album than ever before.The singer’s follow-up to her 2020 smash ‘Future Nostalgia’ was first teased back in January, when Lipa said she had “done a big chunk of writing” for the new record.In March, she then revealed that the album was “50 per cent done” and is “starting to take shape”.Now, she has spoken further of the new record, telling Vogue Australia: “As I’m writing my new album, I feel even more liberated in a completely different way. And even more in control than I thought.”Asked what liberation means to her, she added: “Freedom, especially as a woman, means to be able to take things into your own hands, to have control over the things that you believe in.

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”.

Dua Lipa has offered her verdict on Oscar Isaac reading fan fiction about her on Saturday Night Live. While hosting Saturday’s episode (5 March), Dune star Isaac appeared in a sketch set in a fiction writing workshop. Isaac played a janitor named Michael who seemingly reluctantly joins the class, only to launch into a lengthy romantic story about him and Lipa.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt’s almost become a model in recent years: If a song’s a hit, the copyright-infringement lawsuits follow, and Dua Lipa was clobbered with two of them in four days last week. Her global hit “Levitating,” which has spent 68 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, has drawn two lawsuits from songwriters claiming the song infringes on their compositions, according to multiple media reports.The first was filed March 1 by a Florida reggae group called Artikal Sound System, claiming that Lipa’s song lifts from their relatively obscure 2017 track, “Live Your Life.” That complaint includes little specific detail beyond claiming that the two tracks are so similar that it was “highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently.” In the second, more-detailed legal complaint, filed on March 4 in New York, songwriters L.

Dua Lipa is facing a second song theft lawsuit over her 2020 hit ‘Levitating’ which, it’s alleged, rips off not one but two songs. Well, three if you also count the allegations made in the first of the lawsuits filed over ‘Levitating’ last week.The legal cliche, of course, is that “where there’s a hit there’s a writ”.

Dua Lipa is facing a second copyright lawsuit over her hit ‘Levitating’, less than a week after it was reported that Artikal Sound System had sued the singer for allegedly plagiarising their song ‘Live Your Life’.As Billboard reports, in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court on Friday (March 4), songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer allege that Lipa “duplicate[d]” the “signature” opening melody for ‘Levitating’ from their 1979 song ‘Wiggle and a Giggle All Night’ and 1980 song ‘Don Diablo’, performed by Cory Daye and Miguel Bosé respectively.“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.

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’.