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08-23-2016, 04:50 AM
Sleigh Bells treat Demi Lovato to a copyright infringement lawsuit
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After calling out Demi Lovato (http://mashable.com/category/demi-lovato/) for copyright infringement on Twitter last year, Sleigh Bells have taken the matter to court.
Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller filed a lawsuit alleging that "Stars," a bonus track on Lovato's 2015 album, Confident, rips off "Infinity Guitars" from the duo's 2010 debut album, Treats.*
SEE ALSO: Demi Lovato wants bizarre Poot meme to stay in the basement it came from (http://mashable.com/2015/10/26/demi-lovato-poot/)
"A comparison of the two songs reveals that, at the very least, the combination of the hand claps and bass drum, structured as 3 quarter beats and a rest, with the bass drum providing a counter-rhythm to the hand claps, is at least substantially similar in both works," according to the documents (below) filed in a California district court. "This infringing material repeats throughout the Defendants’ song." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/22/demi-lovato-sleigh-bells-lawsuit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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After calling out Demi Lovato (http://mashable.com/category/demi-lovato/) for copyright infringement on Twitter last year, Sleigh Bells have taken the matter to court.
Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller filed a lawsuit alleging that "Stars," a bonus track on Lovato's 2015 album, Confident, rips off "Infinity Guitars" from the duo's 2010 debut album, Treats.*
SEE ALSO: Demi Lovato wants bizarre Poot meme to stay in the basement it came from (http://mashable.com/2015/10/26/demi-lovato-poot/)
"A comparison of the two songs reveals that, at the very least, the combination of the hand claps and bass drum, structured as 3 quarter beats and a rest, with the bass drum providing a counter-rhythm to the hand claps, is at least substantially similar in both works," according to the documents (below) filed in a California district court. "This infringing material repeats throughout the Defendants’ song." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/22/demi-lovato-sleigh-bells-lawsuit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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