Disclosure and AlunaGeorge Sued By Songwriter Who Claims They Used Her Lyrics

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Disclosure and AlunaGeorge are being sued by songwriter Katie Farrah Sopher, who claims she wrote words for “Latch”, “White Noise”, “You And Me” and “Attracting Flies”, NME reports.

According to the report, Sopher is seeking £200,000, alleging that three songs from Disclosure’s debut album Settle– “Latch”, “White Noise” and “You And Me”– use lyrics taken from a songbook of hers that was “stolen by a ‘violent’ ex-boyfriend, Sean Sawyers, in 2009″. According to Sopher, Sawyers passed the songbook on to music industry contacts without her consent.

Sopher’s testimony also alleges that she wrote the lyrics to AlunaGeorge’s “Attracting Flies”, off of 2013′s Body Music, with Sopher claiming that the four songs were inspired by the abuse she endured during her five-year relationship with Sawyers.

Sawyers denied these claims, stating:

“I am denying all the allegations… There is zero truth to the claims made against me. I never saw the book the claimant mentions… [so] I could not have committed the alleged damages, theft, (and) copyright infringement.”

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