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Lizzo sued for copyright infringement over unreleased song

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on

Published in Entertainment News

Lizzo is being sued for alleged copyright infringement over a song that never enjoyed a commercial release.

GRC Trust is suing the 37-year-old Grammy winner, real name Melissa Viviane Jefferson, and label, Atlantic Records, over claims Lizzo replicated portions of “Win or Lose (We Tried)” in “I’m Goin’ In Till October” without forking over the money for a license to do so, according to the filing obtained by TMZ.

The alleged untoward usage of the track comes after GRC Trust says Lizzo and co. previously tried and failed to negotiate the rights to sample it.

GRC Trust is now seeking damages and, per TMZ, an injunction which would block “the exploitation of its song.”

Lizzo’s song has not yet been commercially released, but did make the rounds on social media in August, when she parodied the controversy surrounding Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad — which some online interpreted as a promotion of eugenics.

 

In 2022, Lizzo settled a 2019 copyright infringement suit over “Truth Hurts,” which ended with her affording a songwriting credit to fellow musician Mina Lioness.

Also in 2019, CeCe Peniston said Lizzo’s “Juice” proved “a clear example of #copyright infringement” with regards to her 1992 track, “Finally.”

Though Atlantic at the time said in a statement to the Daily News that there was “no substantial similarity” between the songs and “no valid claim there,” Peniston disagreed.

Using “over 7 seconds” worth of preexisting material is “using a ‘portion’ of their copyright,” said Peniston, adding that she’d “wanted to bring awareness to the fact that there’s a lot of music that is out in the world today and different things may have been derived from … pieces of somebody else’s work or they may have similarities.”


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