Dua Lipa.Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage
Dua Lipaand Warner Music have reportedly been hit with a third lawsuit over the singer’s smash hit “Levitating.”
The latest suit, filed on Monday, July 31, comes from music producer Bosko Kante who alleges the pop star was never given permission to use his “talk box” recording in her remixes of “Levitating,“perBillboard.
“Plaintiff made numerous attempts to resolve this matter short of litigation, but such efforts were unsuccessful, due to Defendants’ unwillingness to cooperate or accept responsibility for this blatant infringement of Plaintiff’s copyrights,” Kante’s lawyers alleged in the lawsuit.
Kante, who has crafted talk box performances forKanye Westand Big Boi, is the co-founder and CEO of the ElectroSpit talkbox, which is a digital version of the talk box — a device that allows artists to modify the sound of a musical instrument through a person’s mouth.
“All three remixes sampled and incorporated a greater amount of plaintiff’s work than that used in the original version,” Kante’s lawyers wrote. “Defendants did not seek or receive any authorization or permission to use the composition or sound recording of plaintiff’s work from plaintiff.”
Reps for Dua Lipa and Warner Music Group did not immediately return a request for comment.
“Levitating,” featured on the singer’s second studio albumFuture Nostalgia, was released in 2020 and spent 77 weeks on theBillboardHot 100 chart.
Last month, the “New Rules” singer and Warner Recordswon the dismissal of a copyright caseinvolving “Levitating” that came from the reggae band Artikal Sound System.
Dua Lipa.Kevin Winter/Getty
The bandfiled the lawsuit against the pop starin March of last year and claimed that her 2020 song borrowed its hook from their 2017 song. However, the group failed to argue that the writers of “Levitating” had “access” to the song “Live Your Life” they alleged she copied, perReutersandBillboard.
source: people.com
