According to the order granting Dua Lipa's motion to dismiss, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed a lawsuit that claimed Lipa had plagiarized a Florida reggae group Artikal Sound System's song in her well-known track Levitating. The plaintiffs were songwriters Clarence Coffee Jr., Sarah Hudson, and Stephen Kozmenuk, as well as Warner Records.
According to the complaint, Lipa's 2017 song "Live Your Life" by the Florida reggae band Artikal Sound System contained elements that Lipa's smash song "Levitating" had plagiarized.
A copyright infringement case against British pop star Dua Lipa, songwriters Clarence Coffee Jr., Sarah Hudson, and Stephen Kozmeniuk, as well as Warner Records, was recently dismissed by a federal court in Los Angeles.
Despite the group's assertions, Artikal Sound System was unable to demonstrate that the Levitating authors had seen or heard the music. Skyes was unconvinced despite Artikal Sound System's claims that the music is available on streaming sites, was performed live in Florida, and that they sold several hundred compact CDs.
Chris Montague and Fabian Acuna created the South African-based Artikal Sound System in 2012. In its court paperwork from 2022, the group demanded a jury trial and claimed they were due income from Levitating in addition to damages.
The judge rejected the argument that Artikal Sound System's live performances of the song plausibly contributed to the saturation of markets in which defendants would have encountered it because the groups failed to provide information about how frequently they performed Live your life in public during the specified period, where these performances took place, or the size of the venues or audiences. Their nebulous claims on CD sales are equally flawed.
Lipa is still being sued for copyright infringement in connection with "Levitating." The 27-year-old singer was accused of plagiarizing their songs "Wiggle and Giggle All Night" from 1979 and "Don Diablo" from 1980 by songwriters L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer last year. They obtained the copyright for the songs after making a similar claim
