Olivia Dean Lawsuit, AI Fraudster Sentence, Erica Campbell Case & More Top Music Law News
In this week's Legal Beat newsletter, a battle over "Just the Two of Us", a streaming fraud prison sentence, a gospel music settlement and much more.
Olivia Dean, a breakout artist behind hit singles "Man I Need" and "So Easy (To Fall in Love)," is facing a lawsuit alleging her song "I've Seen It" plagiarizes "Just the Two of Us" by Bill Withers. The case, filed by Withers' publisher against Dean's label Capitol Records and publisher Sony Music Publishing, argues the songs have an "obvious and inescapable" similarity. Dean has been praised for her success, with "The Art of Loving" album spending 52 weeks on the Billboard 200.
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