Travis Scott is named in a copyright infringement lawsuit over his single “Highest in the Room,” TMZ reports and documents viewed by Pitchfork confirm. Danish producer Benjamin Lasnier claims in the lawsuit that a tweaked version of a guitar recording posted to his Instagram account appears throughout the song. Lasnier’s lawsuit claims that Jamie Lepr—an engineer on Scott’s song—solicited beats via Instagram in 2019 prior to the single’s release.
The lawsuit also names every label behind the song’s release and each person credited as a producer or engineer: Oz (Ozan Yildirim), Nik D (Nik Dejan Frascona), Mike Dean, Jimmy Cash (Jamie Lepr), and Sean Solymar. Lasnier is suing alongside Olivier Bassil and Lukas Benjamin Leth. Pitchfork has reached out to Travis Scott’s representatives.
“Everything we basically have to say is set forth in the Complaint,” Richard Busch, the attorney for the three songwriters, said in a statement. “I will just add that our clients are very successful songwriters/producers who, as set forth in the Complaint, and is common practice, corresponded with the defendant writers with an eye toward licensing their work through a collaboration. They never expected that this would end up in a lawsuit but felt they had no choice but to take this action under these circumstances.”