Dua Lipa has won a lawsuit claiming she copied the melody of her hit song 'Levitating' from a track on a 1970s album. Songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer were suing the British artist, a lawsuit they filed in 2022, accusing her of infringing copyright on two songs, 'Wiggle and Giggle All Night' from 1979 and 'Don Diablo' from 1980, by Spanish singer Miguel Bosé.
Dua Lipa's lawyers denied that their client had heard the song before co-writing 'Levitating', and said that L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer could not "monopolise one of the most common and rudimentary elements of music: the use of a minor scale".
The judge ruled that 'Levitating' shared similar generic melodies to those used in 'Wiggle', but concluded that the individual elements of the songs "lacked sufficient originality, alone or in combination" to be protected under copyright law.
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