Teletubby 151,405 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Dua Lipa is facing a new federal lawsuit in Los Angeles from musician Bosko Kante, who claims the British pop star and her label Warner Music Group never received his permission to include his "talk box" recording in remixes of her song "Levitating." Bosko Kante said in the lawsuit that the use of his performance on three remixes of Lipa's hit song infringed his copyright, citing an oral agreement that the part Kante created with his wearable electronic device be used only in the song's original recording. The lawsuit said producer Stephen Kozmeniuk approached Kante in 2019 about creating a talk-box track to use on "Levitating." Kante said they verbally agreed to a license stipulating that his recording would only appear on the original track and could not be sampled or reused. Kante's complaint said Lipa reused his work without permission on three "Levitating" remixes - one by DJ The Blessed Madonna featuring pop star Madonna and rapper Missy Elliott, a second featuring rapper DaBaby, and a third that Lipa performed at the American Music Awards. The lawsuit filed on Monday said Kante is entitled to more than $20 million in profit from the infringing music. www.reuters.com/legal/dua-lipa-sued-by-talk-box-musician-latest-levitating-lawsuit-2023-08-01/ "You b*tch!" ~ Rat Boy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 74,517 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 is he the voice that says "baby let me take you for a ride" ? $20M at first seemed like a lot but the song was most successful w the DaBaby remix so I get it but still a lot lol maybe $5M Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke78619 23,414 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 What bit was sampled? insta: good_lukeing | I have nothing else to promote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nATAH 50,604 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 dua lipa logging into ggd to see shes being sued once again mother, what must i do? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railing 2,799 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 37 minutes ago, NATAH said: dua lipa logging into ggd to see shes being sued once again and over the exact same song Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
River 118,108 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Madonna's Blessing was actually a curse So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
River 118,108 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Luke78619 said: What bit was sampled? the oh oh oh oh oh, you hear it well at the beginning of the song So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micmaky 917 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 This is a stupid money grabbing lawsuit. That vocal effect is part of the song, so obviously it will be part of the remixes too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4th Time Around 4,547 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 These stupid lawsuits are getting out of control Hey, I'm king of the world, you ought to hear my song, you come on measure me, I'm twenty inches long Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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