Miley Cyrus is being sued for $300 million (£215m) due to copyright infringement in her song ‘We Can’t Stop’.
The song was the first single from her career-changing fourth album Bangerz and now, the Jamaican songwriter Michael May, known as Flourgon, claims that the track infringes upon his 1988 single ‘We Run Things’.
Reuters reported that May filed a complaint on Tuesday (13th March), with producers Mike WiLL Made-It and Rock City (Timothy and Theron Thomas), Cyrus’ manager Larry Rudolph, plus the labels RCA Records and Sony Music also named in the suit.
May’s lawyers argue that Cyrus’ song “substantially incorporated” his “vocal melody/rhythm/cadence/inflection”, pointing to a “substantially similar hook” and alleged similarities between Cyrus’ refrain, “We run things. Things don’t run we” and his lyrics, “We run things. Things no run we”.
Basically, they are arguing that Cyrus’ song “owes the basis of its chart-topping popularity and its highly-lucrative success to plaintiff May’s protected, unique, creative and original content.”
