Nobody wants to let Dua Lipa levitate! The pop star's Future Nostalgia hit "Levitating" already caused controversy for its since-removed DaBaby feature, then became grounds for a copyright lawsuit when a Florida reggae band accused Lipa of ripping off their 2017 track, "Live Your Life."
While the whole DaBaby thing might not be able to be further rectified, a federal judge has dismissed the infringement case against the song, Billboard reports.
In a ruling on Monday (June 5), US District Judge Sunshine S. Sykes said that there was no evidence that anyone on the "Levitating" writing team (Lipa, Sarah Hudson, Clarence Coffee Jr. and co-producer KOZ) had had "access" to Artikal Sound System's little-known earlier song and called their claims "too generic or insubstantial" to sustain a case.
The reggae band had argued that one of Lipa's co-writers had previously worked with a woman who was allegedly taught guitar by one of the band members' brother-in-law, which the court evidently didn't buy.
"Plaintiffs' failure to specify how frequently they performed 'Live Your Life' publicly during the specified period, where these performances took place, and the size of the venues and/or audiences precludes the Court from finding that Plaintiffs' live performances of the song plausibly contributed to its saturation of markets in which Defendants would have encountered it," the judge wrote.
While the judge dismissed the lawsuit against the pop star, the case isn't technically over yet: Artikal Sound System have until June 16 to refile an amended complaint.
While the whole DaBaby thing might not be able to be further rectified, a federal judge has dismissed the infringement case against the song, Billboard reports.
In a ruling on Monday (June 5), US District Judge Sunshine S. Sykes said that there was no evidence that anyone on the "Levitating" writing team (Lipa, Sarah Hudson, Clarence Coffee Jr. and co-producer KOZ) had had "access" to Artikal Sound System's little-known earlier song and called their claims "too generic or insubstantial" to sustain a case.
The reggae band had argued that one of Lipa's co-writers had previously worked with a woman who was allegedly taught guitar by one of the band members' brother-in-law, which the court evidently didn't buy.
"Plaintiffs' failure to specify how frequently they performed 'Live Your Life' publicly during the specified period, where these performances took place, and the size of the venues and/or audiences precludes the Court from finding that Plaintiffs' live performances of the song plausibly contributed to its saturation of markets in which Defendants would have encountered it," the judge wrote.
While the judge dismissed the lawsuit against the pop star, the case isn't technically over yet: Artikal Sound System have until June 16 to refile an amended complaint.
