Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars Accused of Plagiarizing for 'Uptown Funk'

It has been reported this week that the producer Mark Ronson, and pop singer Bruno Mars have been sued for plagiarizing the band electro funk 80's, Collage, for his success in 2014, "Uptown Funk", which is extracted from the album Uptown Special Ronson. As they alleged by Larry White (only living member of Collage) and the executors of Grady Lee Wilkins and Peters, the subject is a copy of one of them published in 1983 entitled "Young Girls". Ronson himself has admitted in interviews that allowed influenced in part by the band to create the theme.

Within the complaint reads:

"As information and belief, many of the attributes of instrumentation and melody" Uptown Funk "are deliberate and clearly copied from" Young Girls ", including, but not only limited to, the distinctive funky guitar riff in notation and present tense in both compositions, but under virtually identical in its notes and sequence, rhythm, structure and crescendo of metals and synthesizers producing almost indistinguishable if one upon another touch and impressively similar if touched consecutively. "