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The Weeknd hits back at A Lonely Night song-theft claim by British songwriters
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completemusicupdate.comHaving settled his copyright lawsuit with Yeasayer this week, The Weeknd can now focus on trying to get another song-theft claim against him dismissed.This is the one being pursued by British songwriters Brian Clover, Scott McCulloch and Billy Smith.
In a new legal filing, The Weeknd’s lawyers say that the discovery process in that case – “to the extent plaintiffs have bothered to comply with it” – simply confirms what their client had said all along, that the trio’s lawsuit is “frivolous”.Clover, McCulloch and Smith accuse The Weeknd, real name Abel Tesfaye, of ripping off their song ‘I Need To Love’ on his track ‘A Lonely Night’, which appears on the 2016 album ‘Starboy’.The trio’s story begins in 2005 when they did a deal with the
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