The Canadian star, along with his producers and record label
have been sued by a British music publishing company that allege his song
samples the score from a track by composer Tom Raybould, which features in 2013
movie The Machine.
The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles, claims that
the Canadian singer "copyrighted musical composition of an original song,
titled Revolution on the soundtrack album and Revolution Sequence on the cue
sheet, from the score for the motion picture entitled The Machine."
The lawsuit goes on to state: "Specifically, both the
Infringing Song and the Track featuring synthesizer bass-lines performed with
almost identical idiosyncratic sounds at the same register and using the same
pitch sequence, melodic phase structure and rhythmic durations," the
lawsuit states.
It also alleges that two producers behind the track
contacted the composer on Twitter back in March 2015, around two months before
the song was released.
The tweet is believed to have read: "I sampled your
music might make it 2 the weeknd next album. Huge fan of what u did 4 the
machine movie!"
SOURCE : MIRROR
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