A British publishing company claims the Canadian star illegally sampled the score from 2013 film The Machine
The Weeknd, real name Abel Tesfaye, has been hit with a lawsuit which claims he ripped off hit track The Hills.
The Canadian star, along with his producers and record label have been sued by a British music publishing company that allege his song samples the score from a track by composer Tom Raybould, which features in 2013 movie The Machine.
The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles, claims that the Canadian singer "copyrighted musical composition of an original song, titled Revolution on the soundtrack album and Revolution Sequence on the cue sheet, from the score for the motion picture entitled The Machine."
The lawsuit goes on to state: "Specifically, both the Infringing Song and the Track featuring synthesizer bass-lines performed with almost identical idiosyncratic sounds at the same register and using the same pitch sequence, melodic phase structure and rhythmic durations," the lawsuit states.
It also alleges that two producers behind the track contacted the composer on Twitter back in March 2015, around two months before the song was released.
The tweet is believed to have read: "I sampled your music might make it 2 the weeknd next album. Huge fan of what u did 4 the machine movie!"
Mirror Celebs has contacted a rep for The Weeknd for comment.
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