{"id":3110,"date":"2020-08-17T16:59:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2020-08-17T16:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T21:59:38","slug":"lucky-lizzo-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-for-truth-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/lucky-lizzo-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-for-truth-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"LUCKY LIZZO: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit for “Truth Hurts”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A California federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Lizzo by two songwriters who say they helped create \u201cTruth Hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n

In October of 2019, Lizzo had asked the court for a declaration that brothers Justin and Jeremiah Raisen did not co-write her song, and therefore are not entitled to any profits.\u00a0 The Raisen brothers countersued in February, arguing that \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d is a derivative work based on a song called \u201cHealthy\u201d that they created in early 2017 with Lizzo.<\/p>\n

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Lizzo states that the only significant thing to come out of that session was the line, \u201cI just did a DNA test turns out I\u2019m a hundred percent that b*tch,\u201d which was inspired by a viral tweet.<\/p>\n

Judge Dolly M. Gee granted Lizzo\u2019s motion to dismiss the counterclaims, agreeing that a \u201cjoint author of one copyrightable work does not automatically gain ownership of a derivative work.\u201d\u00a0 Even if the Raisens are co-authors of \u201cHealthy,\u201d they have not alleged any ownership interest in \u201cTruth Hurts,\u201d which they claim is a derivative work of \u201cHealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gee is allowing the Raisens to amend, finding that a section of their opposition to Lizzo\u2019s suit indicates that, \u201cthey now intend to allege that their collaboration with Lizzo in creating Healthy was part and parcel of the creative process that led to a single finished work, Truth Hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A California federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Lizzo by two songwriters who say they helped create \u201cTruth Hurts.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80],"tags":[1030,1031,262,586,587],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}