Miley Cyrus’ bid to dismiss the "Flowers" copyright infringement lawsuit got pushback

[Teletubby 141,330]

At a court hearing in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson repeatedly indicated he believes plaintiff Tempo Music Investments has adequate standing to move forward with its lawsuit against Cyrus and her co-defendants after Tempo purchased a fractional share of the Bruno Mars song “When I Was Your Man” from one of that song’s four co-authors, Philip Lawrence. In its lawsuit filed last September, Tempo alleged that “Flowers” copied numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical elements from Mars’ successful 2013 single. In her motion to dismiss filed last November, Cyrus and her co-authors rejected the claims of infringement, but they asked for dismissal on the grounds that Tempo simply lacked standing to sue.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/miley-cyrus-flowers-lawsuit-bid-to-dismiss-challenged-bruno-mars-1235293242/

[Zombiecat 14,910]

it's awkward this is happening and im surprised there was not permissions granted as it's an obvious repurposing of the bruno mars chorus 

[Controversiaga 9,978]

This is still going on? Just give Bruno his rightful credit 

You can’t just take someone else’s song, rewrite it but still use direct lyrics and melodies and not credit them 

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[Lara Croft 2,079]

2 minutes ago, Controversiaga said:

This is still going on? Just give Bruno his rightful credit 

You can’t just take someone else’s song, rewrite it but still use direct lyrics and melodies and not credit them 

This lawsuit has nothing do with Bruno

[Controversiaga 9,978]

Just now, Lara Croft said:

This lawsuit has nothing do with Bruno

“its lawsuit against Cyrus and her co-defendants after Tempo purchased a fractional share of the Bruno Mars song “When I Was Your Man” from one of that song’s four co-authors, Philip Lawrence. In its lawsuit filed last September, Tempo alleged that “Flowers” copied numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical elements from Mars’ successful 2013 single.”

 

Well then I’m rly confused if it’s not abt Bruno’s song, what is it abt ?

[Lara Croft 2,079]

Just now, Controversiaga said:

“its lawsuit against Cyrus and her co-defendants after Tempo purchased a fractional share of the Bruno Mars song “When I Was Your Man” from one of that song’s four co-authors, Philip Lawrence. In its lawsuit filed last September, Tempo alleged that “Flowers” copied numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical elements from Mars’ successful 2013 single.”

 

Well then I’m rly confused if it’s not abt Bruno’s song, what is it abt ?

The lawsuit isn’t coming from Bruno, it’s coming from Tempo (whoever they are)

I believe they’re specifically wanting a writing credit for Philip Lawrence

[Controversiaga 9,978]

4 minutes ago, Lara Croft said:

The lawsuit isn’t coming from Bruno, it’s coming from Tempo (whoever they are)

I believe they’re specifically wanting a writing credit for Philip Lawrence

Ah ok well then I mean give thaaat person or whoever their rightful credit 

[Jill 29,485]

1 hour ago, Lara Croft said:

The lawsuit isn’t coming from Bruno, it’s coming from Tempo (whoever they are)

I believe they’re specifically wanting a writing credit for Philip Lawrence

They sound like a troll company. Maybe they acquired his writing credits knowing Miley's song was similar just for the purpose of suing and making money out of it. It's a similar method to the one used by patent trolls.

[Teletubby 141,330]

5 hours ago, Jill said:

They sound like a troll company. Maybe they acquired his writing credits knowing Miley's song was similar just for the purpose of suing and making money out of it. It's a similar method to the one used by patent trolls.

they acquired his catalog years before Miley released Flowers 

[JoeMo 3,834]

The music industry is crazy 

[bpmMonkey 4,879]

wtf cares? This is billionaires arguing with billionaires on the back of artists to get more money. No one gives a scheiße, bye. 

[Jill 29,485]

6 hours ago, Teletubby said:

they acquired his catalog years before Miley released Flowers 

This is not true. They acquired the catalog the day after Flowers debuted in the Hot 100. I personally know John, who is the manager, and he told me that. I never speak without proper sources.

[TEANUS 14,130]

You guys ain’t reading this right, which is common on this site lol.

If a song has multiple writers, every writer must be compensated when said song is sampled. If one of the writers of When I Was Your Man wasn’t credited/paid while the others were then yeah….its called illegal lol. In this case it doesn’t look like anyone was credited, which is even worse - it’s a very clear and famous sample/interpolation

You think all four writers of the song that Abracadabra samples had equal parts sampled in the final product? No. But all of the song’s writers must be credited. It’s also why people hating on Beyoncé for having so many writers is often bogus because most of them come from sampling credits 

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