Dua Lipa wins copyright lawsuit over Levitating

Mark Savage

Music Correspondent

Getty Images Dua Lipa sings into a microphone while on tour. She is wearing a black lace top and large pendant earrings, with a white fake fur stole draped across her left shoulder.  Getty Images

Dua Lipa is currently on the Australian leg of her year-long Radical Optimism world tour

Dua Lipa has won the dismissal of a lawsuit that accused her of copying her hit single Levitating from two other songs.

The star was sued in 2022 by songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who accused her of plagiarising their 1979 disco track Wiggle and Giggle All Night and 1980’s Don Diablo.

On Thursday, US Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled that the songs only had generic similarities, including non-copyrightable musical elements that had also previously been used by Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the Bee Gees in their song Stayin’ Alive.

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