Pop star Miley Cyrus failed to have a potentially costly copyright suit dropped. It implies that the part-owners of a Bruno Mars track will now get their day in court, with millions of Cyrus earnings hanging in the balance via Yahoo.
It is noted that the source of the dispute is Tempo Music Investments which, after securing one-quarter of the copyright of Mars’ massive hit 2012’s When I Was Your Man, reckon that that entitles them to a cut of Cyrus Grammy-winning global smash Flowers, a track that it reckons represents an “exploitation” of Mars’ original work.
However, this is no Mars vs Cyrus war with artistic integrity at its heart. This is a full legal issue with Mars and his other co-writers yet to offer comment or get involved.
Cyrus isn’t happy and has been working through the process of having the case dropped – and quickly.
Such matters place earnings from the tracks involved into stasis and when that hit is a song like Flowers (the lead single from 2023’s Endless Summer Vacation album and the Grammy winner for both that year’s Record Of The Year and Best Pop Solo Performance) that adds up to an awful lot of money being put on ice.
Other big names featured in the suit (and doubtless working as fast as possible to make it go away) include Cyrus’s co-writers Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack, Sony Music Publishing and even Apple, Target, and Walmart, who are being fingered as distributers of her contentious track.
And, rather than panic, Cyrus simply got legal.
