From Ed Sheeran to Taylor Swift: Musicians and their famous copyright infringement cases

Over the years, we have seen how our favourite singers were called out and were blamed for copying and stealing the song. Now, Justin Bieber is the latest one who has joined the long list of musicians, who were slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit and have gone through a tough court hearing.

From Ed Sheeran to Taylor Swift: Celebs and their most famous copyright infringement cases. Take a look!

Justin Bieber and Dan + Shay are facing legal trouble for their song '10,000 Hours'.

A new lawsuit has been filed against the Bieber and the duo Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney over a copyright infringement. 

As per People, music company Melomega, International Manufacturing Concepts and Sound Gems sued them over the hit song. The suit claimed that they stole the core portion of the 1973 song 'The First Time Baby Is A Holiday,' originally written by Palmer Rakes and Frank Fioravanti and allege that the famous singers took the ''chorus, verse and hook'' of the R&B song. 

Over the years, Taylor Swift faced major trouble for her super hit song ‘Shake It Off’, which was released in the year 2014 and went on to become a chartbuster.

Swift faced a copyright infringement lawsuit and was accused by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, of stealing lyrics from a 3LW song which had lines like ''The playas gon’ play'' and ''Them haters gonna hate.'' and Swift's song had lines “Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play / And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.”

The first case was filed in the year 2017 but was dismissed in 2018. Last year, the case was revived and now the case has been settled.

British pop star Dua Lipa is facing two copyright infringement lawsuits over her super hit song 'Lavitating'.

First is Artikal Sound System, a Florida-based reggae band, accused the singer of stealing their song and making ‘Levitating’. They say, that the 2020 hit is very close to their 2017 song ‘Live Your Life’.

And just a few days after Artikal, a pair of songwriters blamed Dua for copying their 1970s disco hit. They claim that Levitating is “substantially similar” to the 1979 Cory Daye song ‘Wiggle and Giggle All Night’, written by L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer.

 

This year, Ed Sheeran was involved in the much-publicized copyright case, which he won eventually.

Sheeran faced copyright allegations for his superhit song 'Shape of you', by two songwriters Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue, who claim his 2017 hit is inspired and has musical similarities to one they wrote called 'Oh Why'.

Later, the court had ruled in favour of the singer and said that he had not "deliberately or subconsciously" copied the work. 

BTS enjoys a worldwide following and has so far sold over 32 million albums. The boy band has won over two Grammys and has become the first K-pop band who has taken the No.1 spot on the US and UK charts. 

Since their debut from the year 2013, the boys have contributed billions of dollars to the South Korean economy and the group alone attracts thousands of tourists from around the world, so living a life away from the media glare not only will impact them but also the South Korean government and ARMY ofcource!

 

Did you know John Lenon was once accused of stealing the lyrics? Yes. In the year, 1969, Lenon made the song 'Come Together' for the 'Abby Road' album and for the song he took inspiration from the the1956 Chuck Berry song 'You Can't Catch Me'. However, later he was sued by Morris Levy, who accused him of plagiarising the song. However, their were several solid proof again Lenon, but eventually everything was settled out of the court.