Dua Lipa copyright infringement case dismissed in US court

Hindustan Times :
In a recent court ruling, British pop sensation
Dua Lipa, along with songwriters Clarence Coffee Jr, Sarah Hudson, and Stephen Kozmeniuk, as well
as Warner Records, celebrated a significant win as
a federal court in Los Angeles dropped a copyright infringement lawsuit against them.
The lawsuit alleged that Lipa’s hit song ‘Levitating’ had copied elements from a 2017 song called ‘Live
Your Life’ by the Florida reggae group Artikal Sound System. The US District Judge Sunshine Sykes granted the famous singer’s motion to dismiss the case on June 5, stating that Artikal Sound System failed to provide sufficient evidence that the writers of ‘Levitating’ had access to their song. Despite the group’s claims that
the song was available on streaming platforms and had been performed live in Florida, the judge found these arguments to be unsubstantiated.