- Brit Award-winning singer Olivia Dean and record label Capitol Records are facing a lawsuit in the United States brought by Mattie Music Group, which owns the rights to Bill Withers' music catalogue.
- The lawsuit claims that Dean's track "I've Seen It", from her chart-topping album The Art of Loving, copied Withers' 1981 hit "Just The Two of Us" in large and significant part.
- Legal documents filed in the US District Court in California state that a musicological analysis uncovered striking and substantial similarities in protectable musical expression between the two songs.
- Mattie Music Group alleged that written notice of the material similarities was sent to the defendants in August, yet the record continued to be distributed.
- The claimants are seeking financial damages along with an injunction to permanently restrain the music label from further infringing their copyright.
IN FULL
