Musician Daniel Grigson filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Federal Court on Tuesday, Nov. 1, alleging that the songwriters copied parts of his song “That Girl,” including chord progressions, melodic structure and even some of the lyrics. In the lawsuit, Grigson—who runs an education nonprofit called the Sprout Experience—says he has a “very public history of writing original music for and with children,” including “That Girl,” which he released with his band Neccos for Breakfast in 1999, according to Reuters. The song was reportedly streamed over 100,000 times on Trusonic through 2014, and is still available on other platforms. The chorus of “That Girl” centers around the lyric, “some people never change,” which Grigson believes is too significant to be coincidental. He said the similarities in the two songs were so noticeable that the 2019 track “caught him off guard” while watching the Disney film in theaters with his wife and children. “His 11-year-old daughter leaned over to him and said ‘Dad, Disney took your song,’” the lawsuit notes, per Reuters. According to TMZ, Grigson even hired an analyst to compare the two tracks, and ended up finding that the songs not only sound alike, but are similar on a “technical level.” The report also states that Grigson is seeking profits made from the song and for the company to stop using the track. More News:
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