Dua Lipa beats US Levitating copyright lawsuit

Dua Lipa won the dismissal last week of a lawsuit in Manhattan accusing the British pop star of copying her 2021 megahit Levitating from a 1979 disco song.

- JONATHAN STEMPEL

US District Judge Katherine Polk Failla said L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer failed to show "substantial similarity" between Levitating and their song Wiggle And Giggle All Night, though some sections could bear similarities.

The plaintiffs alleged that Levitating copied its "signature melody" from Wiggle and another song to which they held a copyright.

But the judge found that melody unprotectable in light of November's federal appeals court decision that Ed Sheeran's 2014 song Thinking Out Loud did not illegally copy Marvin Gaye's classic