Justin Bieber and Usher are facing a $10 million lawsuit for a singer-songwriter duo claiming copyright violation on Bieber’s song “Somebody To Love.”
Singer Devin Copeland, who goes by De Rico, and songwriter Mareio Overton, first filed the lawsuit in 2013 but it was thrown out. A U.S. appeals court just voted on it to be revived in a 3-0 vote.
Reuters reports Circuit Judge Pamela Harris wrote for the appeals court, “we conclude that their choruses are similar enough and also significant enough that a reasonable jury could find the songs intrinsically similar.”
Copeland and Overton’s lawyer, Duncan Byers, also called it the “same melody and the same chorus." The song in question also has the same title, EW reports.
“Somebody To Love” was a single off of My World 2.0, released in 2010. De Rico’s “Somebody To Love” came out in 2008, appearing on his album My Story II.
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