The Weeknd Sued Over "The Hills"
The Weeknd has been hit with a lawsuit for copyright infringement, as The Hollywood Reporter reports. The suit is related to his song “The Hills”, from this year’s Beauty Behind the Madness. Cutting Edge Music Limited alleges that Abel Tesfaye and his producers illegally sampled the score from the 2013 sci fi film The Machine. The filing can be read here.
The lawsuit centers on an alleged direct message sent over Twitter to Tom Raybould, who scored The Machine, by Emmanuel “Million Dollar Mano” Nickerson, a producer on “The Hills”. The plaintiff claims that the message said, “I sampled your music might make it 2 the weeknd next album. Huge fan of what u did 4 the machine movie!”
The message was allegedly sent around March 9 of this year. “The Hills” was released on May 27.
The plaintiffs seek damages and an injunction. Tesfaye, Nickerson, producer Carlo “Illangelo” Montagnese, co-writer Ahmad “Belly” Balshe, Universal Music Group, and Republic Records are some of the parties named as defendants in the suit, as well as the involved music publishing companies.
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