In 2015, he added five extra songwriting credits onto Uptown Funk to avoid a potential legal case over similarities between the song and The Gap Band’s 1979 hit Oops Upside Your Head. I’ve never had a big hit before so I guess that’s what happens.” When you have a hit people always come out of the woodwork to try to claim it. It was covered by Alexi Blue, Gentleman's Rule, Alex Boy, We3 and other artists. Ana Free released it on the single Uptown Funk in 2015. Serbian pop star Viktorija - real name Snezana Miskovic - claimed it infringed her 1984 track single Ulice Mracne Nisu Za Devojke, or Dark Streets Are Not For Girls, but never pursued legal action.Īt the time, Ronson told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: “I don’t know what the deal is with that. Uptown Funk by Ana Free was written by Jeff Bhasker, Devon Gallaspy, Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Lonnie Simmons, Mark Ronson, Rudy Taylor, Trinidad James, Charlie Wilson US2, Robert Wilson US and Ronnie Wilson and was first released by Mark Ronson in 2014. This is not the first time Uptown Funk has been at the centre of plagiarism allegations. They are deliberating over whether to file a lawsuit, according to TMZ.com. She believes the hooks in both tracks are the same. Kali Bowyer, a representative for the long-defunct three-piece rap group, claims there are notable similarities between The Sequence’s 1979 hit Funk You Up and the 2014 smash hit, which recently won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Notably missing from the lawsuit are Bruno Mars and two other individuals, Devon Christopher Gallaspy and Nicholaus Joesph Williams, who are each also identified in the BMI Repertoire as writers of “ Uptown Funk.BRUNO Mars and Mark Ronson have been accused of copying Uptown Funk from a song by 1980s girl group The Sequence. Uptown Funk is the fourth track on and first single off of Mark Ronson’s fourth studio album, Uptown Special. record label RCA Records through its parent/affiliated companies Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Holdings Inc., USCO Sub LLC, and Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited and music distributors VEVO LLC, Spotify USA Inc., and Apple, Inc. In addition to Ronson, the lawsuit also names other writers of “ Uptown Funk” Jeffrey Bhasker aka Billy Kraven and Philip Martin Lawrence II publishers Imagem Music LLC, Imagem Music Inc., Imagem, C.V., Way Above, Inc., Sony/ATV Songs, LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, WB Music Corp., Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., ZZR Music, LLC, and Universal Music Corp. The complaint also alleges that “ More Bounce” was not the only song that was copied in “ Uptown Funk.” The complaint says that after the copyright for “ Uptown Funk” was registered, it was reported the defendants had later given members of The Gap Band writing credit on “ Uptown Funk” due to its similarity to The Gap Band’s song “ Oops Upside Your Head.” Members of The Gap Band (Ronnie Wilson, Charles Wilson, and Robert Wilson) and the producers of “ Oops Upside Your Head” (Rudolph Taylor and Lonnie Simmons) are now identified as writers of “ Uptown Funk” in the BMI Repertoire.Ī copy of the complaint is available here. According to Ronson, the guitar part in Uptown Funk is “so good” that his stepfather, legendary guitarist, Mick Jones of the band Foreigner, did not believe Ronson created it. According to defendant Ronson, it took him 82 takes to perform the guitar part in Uptown Funk. The guitar part of Uptown Funk is comprised almost entirely of a two-bar chordal pattern and eight-note melody. Specifically, the lawsuit claims that “ Uptown Funk” copied elements from an extended passage of “ More Bounce” that constitutes more than one half, and is the “heart,” of “ More Bounce.” The suit claims that “virtually the entire guitar part, bass melody and vocoder part of Uptown Funk, (as well as the combination and sequence of these elements in Uptown Funk), is copied from this continuous passage of “ More Bounce to the Ounce.” The suit alleges that Ronson’s hit song “ Uptown Funk,” which has been certified 11 times platinum and held the number 1 position on Billboard’s Hot 100 for fourteen consecutive weeks, infringes Roger Troutman’s and the funk group Zapp’s 1980 song “ More Bounce to the Ounce.” On September 12, 2017, the publisher of the legendary song “ More Bounce to the Ounce” filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against music producer Mark Ronson.
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