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Mattie Music Group copyright lawsuit against Olivia Dean's

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Mattie Music Group, the publisher of Bill Withers’ catalog, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in ~~a California federal court.~~ the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The suit alleges that British singer Olivia Dean’s 2025 song, ‘I’ve Seen It,’ from her album ‘The Art of Loving,’ copied the melody of the 1981 track ‘Just the Two of Us.’ A ~~musicologist~~ musicologist, Alexander Stewart, commissioned by the ~~plaintiff~~ plaintiff, reported finding ‘substantial similarities’ and ‘repeated copying’ of a protectable melody, describing the similarities as ‘obvious and inescapable.’ The complaint argues that the similarities are too striking to be a coincidence or the result of independent creation, noting that the widespread popularity of the original song provided a ‘reasonable opportunity’ for the musicians to have encountered it. The legal action targets Capitol Records, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Publishing, and Kobalt Music Publishing America, though it does not name Olivia Dean or her co-writers, Bastian Langebæk and Max Wolfgang, as defendants. The plaintiff claims it notified the defendants of the alleged infringement ~~in August,~~ on August 17, 2026, but the song remained in distribution. Mattie Music Group is seeking financial ~~damages~~ damages, profits, and an injunction to restrict the future use of the song.

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