​The Weeknd settles in copyright case over ‘Call Out My Name’

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The Weeknd has settled an ongoing lawsuit with Suniel Fox and Henry Strange, two musicians who previously claimed that ‘Call Out My Name’, a 2018 track by The Weeknd and several collaborators including Nicolás Jaar, copied one of their own.

Both Fox and Strange – who perform as the duo Epikker – filed a lawsuit against the Canadian popstar in 2021 over copyright infringement alleging that ‘Call Out My Name’ sounded “substantially similar” to ‘Vibeking’, a 2015…