Weeknd, XO, Max Martin and Universal was sued in 2019 over the song 'A Lonely Night' claims of copyright infringement from song titled " I Need Your Love"

Not sure if this has been discussed properly on here, while randomly searching for other stuff on archive.org , came across this lawsuit regarding A Lonely Night claim of copyright infringement by William Smith,Brian Clover, and Scott McCulloch for "ripping off" there song original song titled "I need your love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WCCWWYsj0

You can read the full 16 page document here: https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.cacd.741941

Initially I thought the document was regarding The Smiths and the usage of the sample in Enemy of " Please Let Me Get What I Want" cause i saw the name "smith" but seeing this new document, hearing both songs side by side(provided in the link above). Along with the riff between him and Portishead band members due to " the belong to the world" drums used from there song Machine Gun without there approval, all seems a bit unethical on he and his teams part, along with the other songs where its obvious there borrowed certain sounds from etc, ^(()^(too much to properly list here but you can research them on your own time)^()). which ultimately got them tied up with Rod Temperton/Michael Jackson estate over the song Thriller, where there is proper credit, However, I Believe Wake Me Up also borrows from Jermaine Jackson song " Tell me im not dreaming" more than Thriller itself.

Objectively, all this to say its an interesting yet sticky situation to be in when theres multiple claims of this over the years. When the first claim was with Portishead and Abel's team settled on admitting they "repurposed" the drum pattern from scratch as appose to sample/interpolate of Machine Gun, which is pretty much the same thing that got Pharrell n co caught up with Blurred Lines and Marvin Gaye's estate.