Olivia Dean accused of copying Bill Withers' Just the Two of Us in copyright lawsuit

Mattie Music Group, administrator of Bill Withers' catalogue, has sued over Olivia Dean's I've Seen It, alleging it copies the 1981 Just the Two of Us.

• Mattie Music Group filed the copyright lawsuit on Thursday, alleging I've Seen It copied "substantial" aspects of Just the Two of Us.
• The lawsuit names Dean's label Capitol Records and publishers Sony Music Publishing and Kobalt as defendants, but not Dean or her co-writers.
• Mattie said its hired musicologist Alexander Stewart concluded the works "contain substantial similarities in protectable musical expression."
• Mattie said it notified the defendants of the alleged infringement on 17 August, but they continued distributing I've Seen It.