Owl City, Carly Rae Jepsen, Matt Thiessen and Brian Lee are all being sued over their single “Good Time” that powerfully took over that top radio charts. Alabama singer/songwriter Allyson Nichole Burnett is suing them over copyright infringement of her song “Ah, It’s a Love Song” that she wrote back in 2010. Burnett claims that the song has “identical pitch sequence … melodic contour … rhythmic construction … [and]timbre,” Check out an excerpt of the complaint made by Burnett below.
Defendants’ extensive access to ‘Love Song’ is sufficient to trigger the ‘inverse ration rule,’ whereby a reduced standard of proof of substantial similarity is required when a high degree of access is shown. However, the substantial similarity between the Original Motif and the Copied Motif… is striking under any standard of proof.
