1. The legal issues surrounding Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' song released in November 2014 are ongoing. Despite acknowledging their inspiration from Trinidad James' 2012 hit All Gold Everything, Ronson and his co-composers faced legal challenges. By February 2015, the Gap Band claimed that Uptown FunkRead more

    The legal issues surrounding Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ song released in November 2014 are ongoing. Despite acknowledging their inspiration from Trinidad James’ 2012 hit All Gold Everything, Ronson and his co-composers faced legal challenges. By February 2015, the Gap Band claimed that Uptown Funk infringed on their 1979 track Oops Upside Your Head. Charlie Wilson of the Gap Band warned in an interview with WBLS that they would have to pay for the infringement.

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