Next in the queue, in August 2015 was Serbian 80s band Aska reported in The Independent The artist Snezana Miskovic told the Daily Star that Uptown Funk used “80 per cent” of her track Ulice Mracne Nisu Za Devojke, though she has not yet decided whether to take legal action to claim her song was infringed. Recording by The Gap Band ℗ 1979 Total Experience Records/Mercury Records. Oops Upside Your Head (Wilson/Wilson/Wilson/Simmons/Taylor) © Minder Music Ltd. Compare the examples below, and marvel at the (current) writer credits above for Uptown Funk: They claimed that the rhythm of the chant and its repetition were replicated in Uptown Funk. The Gap Band were first to the table with a claim post-release, which was accepted in April 2015, for a Billboard-reported 17% share in royalties for Uptown Funk's apparent appropriation of elements of Oops Upside Your Head. Recording by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars ℗ 2014 RCA Records. Uptown Funk (Hernandez/Bhasker/Williams/Ronson/Lawrence/Wilson/Wilson/Wilson/Taylor/Simmons/Gallaspy) © Warner/Chappell North America Ltd/Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd/Songs Music Publishing LLC/Imagem Music/Universal/MCA Music Ltd/New Songs Administration Ltd/BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited. Recording by Trinidad James ℗ 2012 Def Jam Recordings. This was reported by Billboard as being a 15% share to the writers, publishers and record label of All Gold Everything.Īll Gold Everything (Gallaspy/Williams) © Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd/Songs Music Publishing LLC. ![]() Given a writer credit from the outset were Gallaspy and Williams for the Trinidad James 2012 track All Gold Everything, with its repeated mantra, "if you don't believe me just watch". In December 2017 the latest claim to surface was from late-1970s all-female US hip hop group The Sequence for their song Funk You Up. Here we chart the changing royalty picture for the song and ask whether the recent challengers' claims have substance or simply share with Uptown Funk elements that are common to the genre. ![]() Since its release in 2014 the global best-selling song Uptown Funk has been plagued with claims that it was based on many earlier songs.
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