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DUa Lipa in March 2026. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Dua Lipa has settled a copyright infringement and breach of contract lawsuit with the producer Bosko Kante over her hit song, “Levitating.”
Lawyers for both parties signaled a settlement had been reached in court documents filed Monday, Nov. 9. The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought again, and both sides will cover their own costs and attorneys fees. Additional details of any settlement — such as whether it would include monetary damages or song credits — were not disclosed.
Lawyers for Lipa and the other defendants — including Warner Records and producer Stephen “Koz” Kozmeniuk — did not return Rolling Stone‘s requests for comment. Nor did a lawyer for Kante.
Kante brought his suit over “Levitating” in 2023. The musician and producer specializes in making music with a “talk box” voice modulator; over the years, he’s invented his own ElectroSplit device, collaborated with artists like Kanye West and Big Boi, and composed the theme music for the hit Nineties sketch comedy series In Living Color. Kante claimed that in 2019, while working on “Levitating,” Kozmeniuk reached out and asked him about “creating and performing a talk box performance” for the song.
According to the suit, Kante eventually struck a licensing agreement that would allow his performance to feature on the track. But Kante claimed the agreement only covered the original version of “Levitating,” released March 26, 2020. It did not cover, he claimed, any future remixes of “Levitating,” of which there were several, including a smash hit version featuring DaBaby.
Kante’s suit was one of several to be filed over “Levitating.” It’s also the only one to end in a settlement, with Lipa prevailing in the other cases.
