Miley Cyrus and ‘We Can’t Stop’
March 16, 2018
Miley Cyrus was sued for $300 million on Tuesday by a Jamaican songwriter who claimed the pop singer’s pop smash hit of 2013 ” We Can’t Stop” closely resembles a song he recorded 25 years ago, and that she is violating his copyright.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, claimed that the song “We Can’t Stop” has almost the same lyrics as Flourgon’s “We Run Things.” “We run things. Things no run we,” which she sings as “We run things. Things don’t run we.”
Michael May, who performs as Flourgon, said he sought to protect his work last year with the U.S. Copyright Office, and in November won “formal copyright protection” for all musical arrangements in “We Run Things.”
He said Cyrus’ song “owes the basis of its chart-topping popularity to and its highly-lucrative success to plaintiff May’s protected, unique, creative and original content.”
A representative for the defendants didn’t immediately return an email responding to the accusations.
May’s lawyers did not go into the details of the damages , but in a press statement they described it as a $300 million dollar case.