Superstar duo Sam Smith and Normani won a copyright infringement lawsuit that claimed their multiplatinum hit “Dancing With a Stranger” stole from a 2015 song by the same name. A California federal ...
Three songwriters allege that Smith and Normani’s 2019 smash duet copied both a song and video concept created in 2015. The three songwriters state their song was originally posted on Vincent’s ...
In 2023, a California federal judge dismissed the copyright infringement lawsuit that claimed their multiplatinum hit “Dancing With a Stranger” stole from a 2015 song by the same name The case will be ...
In 2015, Tom Petty was awarded a songwriting credit for Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” due to its resemblance to “Don’t Back Down.” And now, Rolling Stone reports, Sam Smith is facing a copyright ...
On April 29, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals revived the copyright infringement case filed by Sound and Color, LLC against Sam Smith, Normani, and related parties (collectively, “Defendants”) ...
Ninth Circuit reverses summary judgment in favor of pop singer Sam Smith in music copyright dispute, holding in unpublished opinion that hook in plaintiff’s song may be protectable as unique selection ...
In 2019, Sam Smith and Normani joined forces to release their first collaboration “Dancing With A Stranger.” “It bottles everything I was feeling whilst juggling my personal life and touring,” Smith ...
A new lawsuit claims the "Stay With Me" singer and Fifth Harmony alum plagiarized Jordan Vincent's 2017 song "Dancing With Strangers." According to the music magazine, a complaint was filed Friday in ...