Miley Cyrus settles $430m song lawsuit

By Jonathan Stempel
Updated January 4 2020 - 10:33am, first published 10:27am
Miley Cyrus was accused of misappropriating material from a Jamaican reggae hit released in 1988.
Miley Cyrus was accused of misappropriating material from a Jamaican reggae hit released in 1988.

Miley Cyrus has settled a $US300 million ($A432 million) copyright infringement lawsuit by a Jamaican songwriter who accused the pop star of stealing her 2013 smash We Can't Stop from a similar song he recorded a quarter century earlier.

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