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Alicia Keys' 'Girl On Fire' is now the subject of a copyright lawsuit

  • December 18, 2012
  • Brad O'Mance

Alicia Keys' 'Girl On Fire' has become the subject of a copyright infringe­ment lawsuit, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The lawsuit was filed by song­writer Earl Shuman and claims that Keys' song uses an uncred­ited portion of the Shuman-penned 'Lonely Boy', which was a US Number 2 in 1970 for Eddie Holman (re-titled as 'Hey There Lonely Girl').

Basically, Shuman didn't actually notice it himself but was made aware of supposed sim­il­ar­it­ies by the blog Showbiz411, which initially claimed Shuman was, er, dead.

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