A few months after the Robin Thicke song saw the singer and Pharrell Williams having to pay over $7 million to the Marvin Gaye estate over "Blurred Lines" copyright, the new Usher and Justin Bieber lawsuit puts both singers in the same position, as they're asked $10 million over infringement.
A Virginia court recently decided that the new Justin Bieber lawsuit would go through, with the "Baby" singer and his friend and producer User facing alleged copyright violation over "Somebody to Love," a single from the 21 year-old's 2010 album "My World 2.0."
According to Time Magazine, it was the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, who voted unanimously so that a 2013 Justin Bieber lawsuit about the song was revived, as singer Devin Copeland (stage name De Rico) and songwriter Mareio Overton claim Bieber's song is in violation of their own single, also entitled "Somebody to Love."
Reuters reports that the original Justin Bieber lawsuit claims that there were three versions of the song that shared the same time signature, beat patter and even similar chords and lyrics to their own song, which was written in 2008, two years before the album containing Bieber's hit single came out.
"After listening to the Copeland song and the Bieber and Usher songs as wholes, we conclude that their choruses are similar enough and also significant enough that a reasonable jury could find the songs intrinsically similar," wrote the Circuit Judge, Pamela Harris, when explaining the reasoning to revive the Justin Bieber lawsuit.
The Daily Mail reports that, besides Bieber and Usher, other defendants in the lawsuit include Sony Corporation's Sony/ATV Music Publishing as well as Vivendi's Universal Music Publishing Group.
The song was one of the hits that catapulted Bieber to his current superstardom, long before his image as a bad boy was developed, as he's now been sued a few times and there's even a warrant out for his arrest in Argentina, as well as being linked to several major stars like Selena Gomez, singer Ariana Grande and supermodels Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin.
There are still no dates for the most recent Justin Bieber lawsuit to officially reach courts.
