Bruno mars sued for timetraveling,stole his 2010 hit in 2011
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With a fresh Grammy under his belt and a Super Bowl Halftime Show on his horizon, Bruno Mars is about as "in the limelight" as a guy can get — especially one whose last album came out in 2012. But while Unorthodox Jukebox continues to win big for the pop-maker, an older song that he worked on is now causing some trouble. On Tuesday, a man named Demetrius Orlandus Proctor filed a lawsuit claiming he holds to copyright for the Travie McCoy team-up, "Billionaire."
McCoy, Mars, and the latter's Smeezingtons writing partners Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine are all named in the suit, submitted to a Maryland federal court on January 28. Proctor says he's owned the copyright to the music and lyrics of the track since March 31, 2011, though the song was released in March of 2010 and became an immediate hit. Back then, Mars told Billboard the idea for the song came to him while he was on a project in England with a minuscule budget.
The good news is that Procter probably won't win this suit, because if his dates are correct, Mars and McCoy travelled into the future to steal a song from him. And frankly, if they went through that much effort, we'll let them have it.
Only Bruno, Time Traveler, musician, producer, songwriter, Casanova, what's next?
