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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Laura Snapes

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Dua lipa wins second copyright case over single levitating - Caught on Camera

Dua Lipa performing in Melbourne, March 2025.
Dua Lipa performing in Melbourne, March 2025. Photograph: Jonathan White

A US judge has dismissed a claim by two disco songwriters that Dua Lipa copied her single Levitating from two of their songs, stressing that to find in their favour would “completely foreclose” the evolution of the genre.

In 2022, L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer accused the singer of breach of copyright over their 1979 song Wiggle and Giggle All Night and their 1980 song Don Diablo on the single from her 2020 album Future Nostalgia.

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