Miley Cyrus is obliged to face last year’s demand on the similarities between her successful song Flowers and Bruno Mars’s ballad When I was your man.
A judge denied Cyrus’s request to dismiss a demand for Tempo Music Investments on Tuesday, pointing out a misunderstanding about Cyrus and his part of legal team.
For those without versions, the Flowers Hitmaker was sued in September 2024 by Tempo Music Investments, which has a part of the copyright of the song of Mars after buying the rights of the song of the song coguionist, Philip Lawrence.
The company alleged in its presentation that Cyrus’s 2023 song “doubles numerous melodic, harmonic and lyric elements” and that there was “reproduction, distribution and exploitation not authorized” of the song of Mars 2013 When I was your man.
Flowers‘The composers Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack were included among multiple defendants, along with Sony Music Publishing and Apple. However, Mars, 39, was not appointed in the lawsuit.
Tempo Music Investments has sought an undetermined amount of damages in addition to asking that the defendants listed stop reproducing, distributing or performing publicly Flowers.
Cyrus denied the accusations in November 2024 and appeared to dismiss the demand, saying that only the owners of exclusive rights can take legal actions on it.
In the recent ruling, the court said that Cyrus and his lawyers had a “misunderstanding” of the legal precedent surrounding what “exclusive” means.
“The property of the ‘exclusive rights’ should not be combined with the ‘exclusive property’ of rights. The ‘exclusive rights’ are what the co -owners of the owners are collective property,” establishes the order, according to People’s magazine.
“Lawrence’s interest was a co -ownership interest in the exclusive rights of copyright,” the judge prepared.
“By transferring all that interest, Tempo now enters Lawrence’s shoes and is co -owner of the exclusive copyright rights,” said the presentation.
In a statement, Tempo Music Investments lawyer said they were “excited” but not “surprised” by the ruling.
“Our client hopes that this case will be resolved in their merits and have a lot of confidence in prevailing,” said his lawyer Alex Weingarten.
