<\/a>Dua Lipa is reportedly facing a second copyright lawsuit for her song Levitating, just days after another band accused her of lifting their material.
\nLast week, the One Kiss icon was sued by reggae band Artikal Sound System after they claimed her 2020 smash hit Levitating was a \u2018rip off\u2019 of their song Live Your Life.
\nThe 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.
\nShould 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.
\nNow the 26-year-old has been hit with yet another lawsuit, from two other songwriters claiming Dua copied their track.
\nAccording 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.
\nA 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 Bos\u00e9.
\nAccording to the songwriters, the opening melody to Levitating is a \u2018duplicate\u2019 of their songs.
\nTheir 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 \u2018levitated away plaintiffs\u2019 intellectual property\u2019, and will be unable to \u2018wiggle out of their willful infringement\u2019.
\nDua has spoken before about how previous eras in music inspired the sound in her Future Nostalgia album, and the songwriters claim that in doing this she \u2018copied\u2019 their creation \u2018without attribution\u2019.
\nWhile it is just the opening melody to Levitating that the songwriters claim Dua \u2018copied\u2019 from them, they say this is \u2018crucial\u2019 as the track found popularity on TikTok, where the first few seconds of a song are repeated again and again as it goes viral on the platform.
\nLawyers for the songwriters wrote in the complaint that their clients\u2019 \u2018signature melody often comprises fifty percent or more of these viral videos\u2019.
\nNeither Dua nor her team have commented publicly on this new lawsuit or the one filed in Los Angeles last week.
\nReggae band Artikal Sound System claimed in their lawsuit that Levitating and their track Live Your Life are so similar that it was \u2018highly unlikely that Levitating was created independently\u2019.
\nThe star \u2013 who allegedly parted ways with her longtime management firm recently \u2013 is currently touring around the world for her Future Nostalgia Tour and will soon perform at London\u2019s O2 arena.
\nAs well as the tour, the New Rules hitmaker recently revealed that she has been working on her new album and already has a \u2018vision\u2019 and a name for the record.
\n\u2018It\u2019s still in baby form, so we\u2019ll see as it progresses,\u2019 she told the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

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