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Copyright claim against ‘Despacito’ co-writers dismissed

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Billboard).After comparing the two songs, it was deemed that “the works are only similar as to unprotectable elements and share no commonality at the level of protectable expression.”In fact, the most notable similarity was the song’s title, which was considered “too short and generic to meet the required threshold for creativity to qualify for copyright protection.”The judgement added that “while Plaintiff’s original arrangement of the word ‘Despacito’ in his lyrics is protectable, Defendants did not copy any creative selection that could constitute protectable expression.”The video for Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s ‘Despasito’ has amassed more than 6.9 billion streams on YouTube since being released in 2017.

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