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Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson are facing a new lawsuit over their hit single "Uptown Funk". A 1980s funk-soul group named Collage accused the two of ripping off their 1983 single called "Young Girls". They also said the duo admitted in interviews to being inspired by the Eighties Minneapolis and electro-funk scenes which Collage was a part of. The group is now seeking unspecified damages and profits.

"Many of the main instrumental attributes and themes of 'Uptown Funk' are deliberately and clearly copied from 'Young Girls'," the plaintiffs said in their lawsuit. This includes "the distinct funky specifically noted and timed consistent guitar riffs present throughout the compositions, virtually if not identical bass notes and sequence, rhythm, structure, crescendo of horns and synthesizers rendering the compositions almost indistinguishable if played over each other and strikingly similar if played in consecutively."

Mars and Ronson haven't responded to the lawsuit, but it's not the only copyright infringement allegation they have faced. Funk group The Sequence previously claimed the duo of copying their 1979 song "Funk You Up" while The Gap Band accused them of heavily borrowing from their song "Oops! Upside Your Head". The Gap Band's members were later given songwriting credits and a percentage of the royalties.