Lizzo vs. Great Jeans | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: Music Business Worldwide dot Com. Just a quick story, then we got to get to a break. Lizzo sued for alleged copyright violation and unreleased song snippet referencing Sydney sweeney jeans ad What did you see this? Yeah, this just happened. Come on this This went up a couple days ago. It says, Lizzo is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over a snippet of a song the singer shared on social media that referenced the controversy around Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad. The GRC Trust at Georgia based Revocable Trust filed the lawsuit in federal court in California on Tuesday, the twenty first, alleging that Lizzo's track, known alternately as I'm Going in Till October or Good Jens that's the full title, sampled without permission the nineteen seventy song win or Lose We Tried by soul singer and songwriter samd's Lizzo's allegedly infringing work Quote incorporates interpolates and samples instrumental and vocal elements of the sam d's composition on quote States's GRC Trust complaint, which can be read and full.

1:03 Speaker 1: There's a link to it if you want to check it out. Quote representatives for Lizzo acknowledged the same unquote. However, a representative for Lizzo told BBC News in Bloomberg Law that they were quote surprised that the GRC Trust filed the lawsuit given that Lizzo's song has never been commercially released or monetized, and no decision has been made at this time regarding any future commercial will release of the song unquote. So this is an example. We talk a lot on the show about whether it's AI or whether it's something like this, all this new territory that we're entering in the music industry, because now this is something that was not has not been released.

1:39 Speaker 1: A snippet of this was shared on social media, and somebody's following a lawsuit over this. A snippet of this was shared on social media. That's interesting. I'm not making a judgment about whether it's right or wrong, or who's right or wrong here. I'd have to think this one over a little bit. But this is but this 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 and sound and put it in your music, I can understand why they say, hey, wait, you're infringing on my 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 a way that could be shared, I think you're opening 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, Now that this is happening, it seems inevitable that something like this would come up. But this is the first example I've seen of something like this coming up where an actual, an actual lawsuit has come about it. It's interesting. Again, I'm not making a judgment in this moment about whose side I'm on here or what I think. I just saw this. I didn't even see this before the show. I happened to see it just a few minutes ago it popped up in my newsfeed.

2:55 Speaker 1: But very very interesting. So we will have to we will have to follow that closely going forward.