Dua Lipa wins copyright lawsuit

Pop star Dua Lipa won a copyright lawsuit filed against her by songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who claimed her hit single Levitating infringed songs of theirs from 1979 and 1980. Judge Katherine Pok Failla ruled that only "generic similarities" were shared between the tracks and that the descending singsong melody under scrutiny had already been used by Mozart and Gilbert and Sullivan—and found earlier at the disco thanks to the Bee Gees' 1977 hit Stayin' Alive. — Read the rest

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