Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson Face lawsuit over 'Uptown Funk'

Singer Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson have been slapped with a new law suit 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," reported Rolling Stone.
The band 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'.
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," the plaintiffs said in their lawsuit.

Mars and Ronson have not responded to the lawsuit yet.
Previously, Funk group The Sequence claimed the duo of copying their 1979 song "Funk You Up" while The Gap Band accused them of heavily copying from their song "Oops! Upside Your Head". The Gap Band's members were later given songwriting credits and a percentage of the royalties.