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\n\tDua Lipa<\/a> has settled a copyright infringement and breach of contract lawsuit with the producer Bosko Kante over her hit song, \u201cLevitating.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tLawyers for both parties signaled a settlement had been reached in court documents filed Monday, Nov. 9. The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought again, and both sides will cover their own costs and attorneys fees. Additional details of any settlement \u2014 such as whether it would include monetary damages or song credits \u2014 were not disclosed.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIn short, we believe this case, and resolution, benefits all artists that produce, perform, and collaborate on projects released by large labels,\u201d Na\u2019il Benjamin, a lawyer for Bosko, said in a statement. \u201cArtist contributions are valuable; and proper use, credit and compensation are important to artists. We believe we\u2019ve resolved Bosko\u2019s disputes with Warner in a manner that reflects Bosko\u2019s contributions to Levitate.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLawyers for Lipa and the other defendants \u2014 including Warner Records and producer Stephen \u201cKoz\u201d Kozmeniuk \u2014 did not return Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s requests for comment.<\/p>\n \n\tKante brought his suit over \u201cLevitating\u201d in 2023. The musician and producer specializes in making music with a \u201ctalk box\u201d voice modulator; over the years, he\u2019s invented his own ElectroSplit device, collaborated with artists like Kanye West and Big Boi, and composed the theme music for the hit Nineties sketch comedy series In Living Color<\/em>. Kante claimed that in 2019, while working on \u201cLevitating,\u201d Kozmeniuk reached out and asked him about \u201ccreating and performing a talk box performance\u201d for the song.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to the suit, Kante eventually struck a licensing agreement that would allow his performance to feature on the track. But Kante claimed the agreement only covered the original version of \u201cLevitating,\u201d released March 26, 2020. It did not cover, he claimed, any future remixes of \u201cLevitating,\u201d of which there were several, including a smash hit version featuring DaBaby<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tKante\u2019s suit was one of several to be filed over \u201cLevitating.\u201d It\u2019s also the only one to end in a settlement, with Lipa prevailing in the other cases.<\/p>\n