Miley Cyrus has reached a settlement agreement in the $300 million copyright infringement lawsuit that accused the singer of stealing her 2013 hit single “We Can’t Stop.”
According to Page Six, the lawsuit was filed in 2018, by Jamaican songwriter Michael May, who claimed that “We Can’t Stop” copied his 1988 track “We Run Things.”
May, whose stage name is Flourgon, claimed that Cyrus and her label, Sony Corp’s RCA Records, stole the hook “We run things. Things no run we,” which she performed as “We run things. Things don’t run we.”
The singer’s legal team previously revealed a settlement agreement in a December 12th letter that would be filed “pending payment of the settlement proceeds.” Terms of the settlement were not revealed at that time.
However, May, Cyrus, and Sony – along with a production team that includes Mike Will Made It – filed documents in Manhattan federal court on Friday to dismiss the lawsuit “with prejudice,” which is a final judgment that stops the plaintiff from ever filing the lawsuit again in the future.
