The Weeknd solves Call Out My Name copyright case

• Copyright infringement issue involving “Call Out My Name” by The Weeknd has been resolved.
• The Weeknd were sued in 2021 by producers over a track.
• The Weeknd used an interpolation of Jaar’s 2016 song “Killing Time.”

Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, who is best known for his hit song “Blinding Lights,” along with co-defendants Nicolás Jaar and Frank Dukes, were sued in 2021 by producers Suniel Fox and Henry Strange over a track from The Weeknd’s 2018 debut EP, “My Dear Melancholy,” which they claimed was “strikingly and/or substantially similar, if not identical,” to their unreleased track.

The action is likely to be dropped, but on March 17, Fox and Strange’s attorneys filed papers stating that both sides had struck a settlement, the specifics of which had not been made public.

The filing, as seen by Rolling Stone, read: “Because the parties are still in the process of formalising, executing, and consummating that settlement, Plaintiff respectfully requests that the Court take all dates off calendar and set a date in 30 days for the parties to file a joint status report if the case has not already been dismissed.”

The Weeknd used an interpolation of Jaar’s 2016 song “Killing Time,” despite Jaar’s insistence that he had nothing to do with co-writing the song.

The members of the duo Epikker, Fox and Strange, asserted that the songs had “quantitatively and qualitatively comparable material in their separate lead guitar and vocal hooks, including melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic characteristics specific to “Vibeking”.”

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