This week, Justin Bieber and Skrillex were both named in a lawsuit claiming that their song "Sorry" had infringed on the copyright of White Hinterland's "Ring the Bell." Should this lawsuit make it to court, this could be the biggest music copyright case since Marvin Gaye's family sued and won a case against Pharrell and Robin Thicke for "Blurred Lines."
Without hesitation, Skrillex posted a video on Twitter showing how they made the vocal sound in the beginning of "Sorry", which White Hinterland claims was stolen from her 2014 song. In the video Skrillex walks through how the vocal noise was made through manipulating an original vocal section recorded for the track. "SORRY but we didnt steal this," his tweet reads.
The lawsuit from White Hinterland claims that "The identical and/or striking similarity of 'Sorry' to Plaintiff's song 'Ring the Bell' surpasses the realm of generic coincidence and independent creation."
The above video from Skrillex would allegedly show how the sound was made without using an exact copy of White Hinterland's vocals. However, as we wrote yesterday, these cases are complex, and it still wouldn't account for the striking similarity between the sound of those two specific songs, which White Hinterland claims exists.
Take another listen to the two songs below:
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