Lizzo vs. Great Jeans | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Music Business Worldwide dot Com. Just a quick story, then

0:02 Speaker 1: we got to get to a break. Lizzo sued for

0:05 Speaker 1: alleged copyright violation and unreleased song snippet referencing Sydney sweeney

0:11 Speaker 1: jeans ad What did you see this? Yeah, this just happened.

0:15 Speaker 1: Come on this This went up a couple days ago.

0:17 Speaker 1: It says, Lizzo is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over

0:21 Speaker 1: a snippet of a song the singer shared on social

0:24 Speaker 1: media that referenced the controversy around Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad.

0:30 Speaker 1: The GRC Trust at Georgia based Revocable Trust filed the

0:33 Speaker 1: lawsuit in federal court in California on Tuesday, the twenty first,

0:37 Speaker 1: alleging that Lizzo's track, known alternately as I'm Going in

0:42 Speaker 1: Till October or Good Jens that's the full title, sampled

0:46 Speaker 1: without permission the nineteen seventy song win or Lose We

0:49 Speaker 1: Tried by soul singer and songwriter samd's Lizzo's allegedly infringing

0:54 Speaker 1: work Quote incorporates interpolates and samples instrumental and vocal elements

0:58 Speaker 1: of the sam d's composition on quote States's GRC Trust complaint,

1:02 Speaker 1: which can be read and full. There's a link to

1:04 Speaker 1: it if you want to check it out. Quote representatives

1:07 Speaker 1: for Lizzo acknowledged the same unquote. However, a representative for

1:11 Speaker 1: Lizzo told BBC News in Bloomberg Law that they were

1:15 Speaker 1: quote surprised that the GRC Trust filed the lawsuit given

1:20 Speaker 1: that Lizzo's song has never been commercially released or monetized,

1:23 Speaker 1: and no decision has been made at this time regarding

1:26 Speaker 1: any future commercial will release of the song unquote. So

1:29 Speaker 1: this is an example. We talk a lot on the

1:31 Speaker 1: show about whether it's AI or whether it's something like this,

1:33 Speaker 1: all this new territory that we're entering in the music industry,

1:36 Speaker 1: because now this is something that was not has not

1:38 Speaker 1: been released. A snippet of this was shared on social media,

1:42 Speaker 1: and somebody's following a lawsuit over this. A snippet of

1:44 Speaker 1: this was shared on social media. That's interesting. I'm not

1:48 Speaker 1: making a judgment about whether it's right or wrong, or

1:50 Speaker 1: who's right or wrong here. I'd have to think this

1:52 Speaker 1: one over a little bit. But this is but this

1:56 Speaker 1: is a new but this is new territory, but.

1:58 Speaker 2: It's not mentioning it's literally taking sounds.

2:02 Speaker 1: Yeah.

2:02 Speaker 2: And you know, so when you take somebody else's vocals

2:07 Speaker 2: and sound and put it in your music, I can

2:10 Speaker 2: understand why they say, hey, wait, you're infringing on my

2:13 Speaker 2: rights to control my music, my artistry.

2:16 Speaker 1: Yeah.

2:17 Speaker 2: And if you're going to put something like that in

2:19 Speaker 2: a way that could be shared, I think you're opening

2:22 Speaker 2: yourself up to some liability.

2:24 Speaker 1: Whether it was.

2:24 Speaker 2: Intended to be in the public or not.

2:26 Speaker 1: You did it well. Now that this has made there,

2:29 Speaker 1: Now that this is happening, it seems inevitable that something

2:31 Speaker 1: like this would come up. But this is the first

2:34 Speaker 1: example I've seen of something like this coming up where

2:38 Speaker 1: an actual, an actual lawsuit has come about it. It's interesting. Again,

2:45 Speaker 1: I'm not making a judgment in this moment about whose

2:47 Speaker 1: side I'm on here or what I think. I just

2:49 Speaker 1: saw this. I didn't even see this before the show.

2:52 Speaker 1: I happened to see it just a few minutes ago

2:54 Speaker 1: it popped up in my newsfeed. But very very interesting.

2:56 Speaker 1: So we will have to we will have to follow

2:59 Speaker 1: that closely going forward.