Miley Cyrus has been the subject of a lawsuit claiming that she and co -authors Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack They copied parts of a single from Bruno Mars When they wrote their world success winner of Grammy “Flowers”.
The pop star had a setback in the first instance for a Federal Court of California to dismiss the lawsuit in which the Mars song is accused of illegally “When I was your man”.
The American district judge Dean Pregerson rejected Cyrus’s argument on Tuesday that Tempo Music Investments, who said he owned a part of the copyright of Mars’s song, could not file the lawsuit.
Tempo is not linked to Mars, which is not involved in demand.
The demand against Miley Cyrus
According to the demand Tempo Music Investments states that “flowers” includes an unauthorized “exploitation” of several elements of the Mars piano ballad of 2013 “When I was your man”. The demand also appoints Sony Music Publishing, Apple, Target, Walmart and several other companies as defendants accused of distributing “flowers”.
Tempo has a percentage of copyright in the United States of the Mars song that he acquired from the co -author Philip Lawrence. Mars, together with co -authors ARI Levine and Andrew WyattThey are not appointed as plaintiffs in the claim.
Although the lyrics of the song of Mars mentions Flores, the similarities between the two are not evident if they are heard casually. However, the lawsuit states: “Any fan of ‘When I was your man’ by Bruno Mars knows that Miley Cyrus’s ‘flowers’ did not achieve all that success alone. ‘Flowers’ doubleincluding the design of the melodic tone and the stanza sequence, the low line that connects them, certain compasses of the chorus, certain theatrical musical elements, lyrical elements and progressions of specific chords.
“It is undeniable, based on the combination and number of similarities between the two recordings, which ‘Flowers’ would not exist without ‘When I was your man’, ”continues the complaint. “With ‘Flowers’, Cyrus, Hein and Pollack have created a work derived from ‘When I was your man’ without authorization.”
Source: Ambito
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