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Daniel Griffiths

“Adopting the rule urged would turn the entire music industry on its ear”: A judge just decided that Miley Cyrus's Flowers will have to face a Bruno Mars song copyright claim

Miley Cyrus and Bruno Mars.

Miley Cyrus has just failed to have a potentially costly copyright suit dropped, meaning that the part-owners of a Bruno Mars track will now get their day in court, with millions of Cyrus earnings hanging in the balance.

The source of the dispute is Tempo Music Investments which, after securing one-quarter of the copyright of Mars' massive hit 2012’s When I Was Your Man, reckon that that entitles them to a cut of Cyrus Grammy-winning global smash Flowers, a track that it reckons represents an “exploitation” of Mars’ original work.

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