A still from the music video for Lady Gaga’s song Judas which was the basis of the lawsuit
Highlights
- A federal judge has dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Lady Gaga filed by a Chicago songwriter who accused her of stealing parts of one of her songs.
- Rebecca Francescatti filed the suit in US District Court in Chicago in 2011, alleging that Lady Gaga had copied music and the title lyric from her 1998 song Juda.
- Lady Gaga's 2011 song is called Judas.
- Judge Marvin Aspen ruled this week that the songs do not have common lyrics, have different themes and sound nothing alike musically.
- The judge concluded there wasn't enough evidence that Lady Gaga could have heard or known about Rebecca’s song before publishing Judas.
- Judge Marvin also wrote that the songs "are so utterly dissimilar that reasonable minds could not differ as to a lack of substantial similarity between them."
A federal judge has dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Lady Gaga filed by a Chicago songwriter who accused her of stealing parts of one of her songs.
Rebecca Francescatti filed the suit in US District Court in Chicago in 2011, alleging that Lady Gaga had copied music and the title lyric from her 1998 song
Juda.
Lady Gaga's 2011 song is called
Judas. (Also Read:
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Judge Marvin Aspen ruled this week that the songs do not have common lyrics, have different themes and sound nothing alike musically.
The judge concluded there wasn't enough evidence that Lady Gaga could have heard or known about Rebecca's song before publishing
Judas.
Judge Marvin also wrote that the songs "are so utterly dissimilar that reasonable minds could not differ as to a lack of substantial similarity between them."