April 13, 2018
Pop star Bruno Mars, music producer Mark Ronson and representatives of '80s electro-funk band Collage filed an agreement Thursday to dismiss a California federal suit over the 2014 hit "Uptown Funk," which had been accused of ripping off Collage's 1983 tune "Young Girls" and is still at issue in separate cases.
October 31, 2016
A 1980s funk band accused pop star Bruno Mars and DJ Mark Ronson of almost directly copying the bass line, guitar riff and other elements of one of the band's biggest hits with their colossal single "Uptown Funk," according to a copyright suit filed in California federal court on Friday.