July 23, 2020
A California federal judge on Wednesday tossed a lawsuit accusing Canadian R&B artist The Weeknd of ripping off a song by a trio of British songwriters to make his track "A Lonely Night," saying the songwriters didn't show enough similarity under the Ninth Circuit's recent Led Zeppelin ruling.
June 03, 2020
The Weeknd is having a busy week of copyright litigation, first settling a lawsuit that accused him of illegally sampling a song by the indie band Yeasayer, and then moving to escape another case that claimed he ripped off an obscure 2005 song.
November 08, 2019
A California federal judge shot down an attempt by The Weeknd to trim a suit accusing the Canadian R&B artist of ripping off a song by a trio of British songwriters to make his track "A Lonely Night," which appeared on his Grammy Award-winning 2016 album "Starboy."
April 03, 2019
A trio of British songwriters on Wednesday accused R&B singer The Weeknd of infringing their song to make his track "A Lonely Night," which appeared on his Grammy Award-winning album "Starboy."