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Olivia Dean’s ‘I’ve Seen It’ copied melody of Bill Withers classic ‘Just the Two of Us,’ lawsuit alleges
Olivia Dean is accused of copying the melody of Bill Withers’ Grammy-winning hit song “Just the Two of Us” for the closing track of her latest album.
A lawsuit was filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Dean’s “I’ve Seen It” copies “in large and significant part” Withers’ song. Mattie Music Group, which controls Withers’ catalog, says in the suit that it used a musicologist who compared the two songs and found “substantial similarities.”
The defendants — Capitol Records, Universal Music Group, Sony Publishing, and Kobalt Music Publishing America — were notified in writing in August of the infringement, the lawsuit says.
Olivia Dean accused of copying Bill Withers' Just The Two of Us
British pop star Olivia Dean has been accused of copying the melody of Bill Withers' soul classic Just The Two of Us in a legal case filed in California.
The complaint centres around Dean's song I've Seen It, taken from her Brit Award-winning 2025 album The Art of Loving.
Just The Two of Us was a hit for Withers in 1981, and the publishers of the late singer's catalogue allege that the two songs "share musical features" that are "so striking" they cannot have arisen by coincidence alone.
The lawsuit names Dean's record label Capitol Records, parent company Universal Music Group and her publishing companies as the defendants. It does not seek damages from the singer herself or her co-writers Bastian Langebæk and Max Wolfgang.
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Olivia Dean’s ‘Art of Loving’ Song Accused of Copying Bill Withers’ ‘Just the Two of Us’
A new lawsuit alleges the Olivia Dean song “I’ve Seen It,” from her critically acclaimed album The Art of Loving, copies an unmistakable melody from the Bill Withers hit “Just the Two of Us.”
Filed in federal court in Los Angeles and obtained by Rolling Stone, the new complaint from the publisher behind Withers’ catalog says the similarities between Dean’s song and the 1981 Grammy-winning R&B classic are “obvious and inescapable.” The publisher says a musicologist who reviewed the songs found “substantial similarities” and repeated copying of a “distinctively protectable melody.”
“The number, character, and arrangement of the shared musical features are so striking that they support an inference that the similarities did not result from coincidence, independent creation, or reliance on common musical elements,” the new lawsuit states.
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