The Weeknd, real name Abel Tesfaye, has been hit with a lawsuit which claims he ripped off hit track The Hills. The
Canadian star, along with his producers and record label have been sued
by a British music publishing company that allege his song samples the
score from a track by composer Tom Raybould, which features in 2013
movie The Machine.
The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Los
Angeles, claims that the Canadian singer "copyrighted musical
composition of an original song, titled Revolution on the soundtrack
album and Revolution Sequence on the cue sheet, from the score for the
motion picture entitled The Machine."
The lawsuit goes on to state: "Specifically, both the
Infringing Song and the Track featuring synthesizer bass-lines performed
with almost identical idiosyncratic sounds at the same register and
using the same pitch sequence, melodic phase structure and rhythmic
durations," the lawsuit states.
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