Dua Lipa is once again facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over her 2020 megahit Levitating, this time from a California producer who says the British pop star used his work in the song’s hit remixes without permission.
Lawyers for Bosko Kante, a music producer, engineer and entrepreneur, filed a complaint on Monday (July 31) with the US District Court for the Central District of California.
The complaint states that Stephen Kozmeniuk, one of the producers credited on Levitating, approached Kante in 2019, asking him to create a talkbox vocal to be used on the song. The complaint, obtained by MBW, can be read in full here.
(A talkbox is a device that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument using their voice. It was most famously employed by 1970s rocker Peter Frampton, and in the opening bars of Bon Jovi’s 1987 hit Livin’ On A Prayer.)
Kante agreed, and recorded a talkbox performance to be used on the song, despite “multiple” attempts at coming to a licensing agreement for the performance, the complaint alleges.
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