British singer Adele’s song Million Years Ago is accused of plagiarism in Brazil

British singer The nobility pieces Million Years Ago plagiarism is suspected again.

A Brazilian judge ordered a song to a global ban due to plagiarism accusations, the news agency AFP and The Guardian -leaf. The song has also been ordered to be removed from streaming services.

The Brazilian subsidiaries of Adele’s record companies, Sony and Universal, face an $8,000 fine “for each failure to comply with the order.” However, they still have the opportunity to appeal the decision.

The preliminary ruling requires Sony and Universal to stop “immediately and worldwide using, copying, modifying, distributing or commercializing” the song in any way.

The nobility 25-album released in 2015, the song is allegedly plagiarized by a Brazilian composer Toninho Geraesin this connection Womenwhose singer Martinho da Vila recorded for his album released in 1995.

In court, the composer is demanding lost royalties, $160,000 in damages for moral damages, and the inclusion of his name as the author of Adele’s song.

“The song is a landmark for Brazilian music, which has often been copied to compose international hits”, the lawyer of Geraes, who filed a plagiarism lawsuit Fredimio Trotta quoth.

The lawyer hopes that the ban will curb the enthusiasm of international producers and artists to “parasite” Brazilian music.

The same Adele’s song has been suspected of plagiarism before. In 2015, the late Kurdish singer Ahmet Kayan fans accused Adele’s ballad of plagiarism. According to Turkish fans the song sounded similar to Kaya’s a song recorded in 1985 Holding on to Pain.

Kaya died in exile in France in 2000. His widow said nine years ago that she did not believe an international star like Adele would plagiarize her songs.

“But if he did it knowingly, then it’s stealing,” the widow said.

So far, neither Adele nor the record companies have commented on the latest accusations of plagiarism.

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