Anitta Wins Court Ruling Dismissing ‘Funk Rave’ Copyright Lawsuit: ‘Speculative at Best’

Anitta has won a tribunal ruling dismissing a suit that claimed she stole cardinal elements of her 2023 deed “Funk Rave” aft a justice said the prima apt ne'er adjacent heard the accuser’s song.

Giorgio Trovato and Giuseppe Di Caccamo Jr. claimed successful a January suit that the Brazilian superstar (Larissa de Macedo Machado) lifted the bushed and chorus of their 2006 opus “Sácalo.” But successful a ruling Monday, Judge K. Michael Moore says the lawsuit has a “fatal” flaw.

It’s unlikely, the justice says, that Anitta, 32, ever adjacent “heard plaintiffs’ opus erstwhile she was a 14-year-old nonmigratory of Brazil.” Though the 2 accusers besides argued that her co-writer Diplo mightiness person heard the earlier track, the justice says that assertion is “speculative astatine best.”

“Allowing plaintiffs’ claims to proceed connected specified unsubstantiated and unpled theories would not walk muster,” Judge Moore writes.

Trovato and Di Caccamo sued Anitta successful January, claiming that portions of “Funk Rave” were “substantially similar, if not identical” to their song, which they said had been released successful 2007 by a radical named Erotico.

But successful immoderate American copyright lawsuit, an accuser indispensable amusement that a suspect had “access” to the archetypal enactment to springiness them a accidental to transcript it. Though Trovato and Di Caccamo assertion they sent the opus to galore DJs and that Diplo could person heard it, Judge Moore says that simply isn’t capable for their suit to survive.

“Plaintiffs [do not] allege they provided a transcript of their opus to him oregon a venue wherever helium was present,” the justice says. “Plaintiffs inquire the tribunal to excuse them from pleading not lone however Diplo mightiness person shared plaintiffs’ opus with Machado, but besides however Diplo mightiness person accessed it successful the archetypal place.”

Judge Moore besides says the lawsuit fails for an adjacent much nonstop reason: That Trovato and Di Caccamo can’t amusement that the songs are akin enough. He says the connection “Sácalo” that appears successful some tracks is “very communal successful Spanish-language music” and apt isn’t protected by copyrights, and that different alleged similarities look a akin problem.

“The tribunal antecedently instructed plaintiffs that they indispensable place the circumstantial constituent of the chorus that is archetypal to them,” the justice writes. “Plaintiffs person not done truthful here.”

An lawyer for Trovato and Di Caccamo did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment. An lawyer for Anitta declined to comment.