“A musical style, defined by plaintiffs as ‘pop with a disco feel’, cannot possibly be protectable”: Dua Lipa wins victory in Levitating court case as judge rules that there is no copyright infringement

Dua Lipa is celebrating victory in her Levitating copyright case, with a New York judge ruling that the song does not plagiarise two other songs.

The case was brought by in 2022 by songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who argued that Levitating infringed the copyright of two songs that they own the rights to: Cory Daye’s Wiggle and Giggle All Night, from 1979, and Miguel Bosé’s Don Diablo, which was released in 1980. They were the writers of the former, and won the rights to the latter in a previous copyright case.