2:18 pm, April 28th, 2012
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Selena Gomez has been named in a $1 million lawsuit that claims her 2010 hit “A Year Without Rain” features a chorus that’s “virtually identical” to the band Luce’s 2005 track “Buy A Dog.”
The plaintiffs are four songwriters — Tom Luce, Brian Kroll, Matt Blackett and Lawrence Riggs — who allege that Gomez and her band (The Scene) lifted the Luce song’s chorus for “A Year Without Rain,” which became the title track of Gomez’s second studio album.
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The credited co-writers behind Gomez’s hit, Lindy Robbins and Toby Gad, have also been named co-defendants.
According to Courthouse News Service, Luce says that “Buy A Dog” had enormous airplay on Sirius/XM radio and other outlets in 2005, and that “the melodies in the chorus of both songs are virtually identical.”
The plaintiffs declare that Gomez and her co-defendants are infringing on their copyright.
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