Jake Paul sued after reportedly stealing music for \u2018Litmas\u2019 song YouTube star Jake Paul released his Christmas-themed track \u201cLitmas\u201d two years ago \u2014 but the social media celeb is now being sued for the song, after three producers claim he stole their beats. While the lyrics might be his own, producers Shane Abrahams, Erik Belz and Jonathan Pakfar allege that the YouTuber lifted their music for use in \u201cLitmas\u201d in 2015. In documents procured by TMZ, the producers claim their song\u2019s original title was \u201cBad Santa,\u201d and had even used the same studio as Jake Paul a number of times during 2015. The trio likewise claim that the Team 10 founder had even heard the track being played at this studio, and two years later, their work appeared on YouTube under Jake Paul\u2019s name. The producers allege that they have not been compensated or acknowledged by Paul in any way since \u201cLitmas\u2019s\u201d release, which has garnered nearly 17 million views at the time of writing. All three producers state that their beats for the song are \u201coriginal, unique and specific in terms of pitch, register and overall use,\u201d and are suing the YouTuber for copyright infringement. That\u2019s not all: the trio also hope to pull Paul\u2019s song offline, as well as score some form of monetary compensation from it\u2019s viral popularity. While Jake Paul has yet to respond to TMZ\u2019s request for comment, this isn\u2019t the first time the YouTuber has gotten into legal trouble this year: he likewise faced a lawsuit for false imprisonment in early February, after his security guard accused a concerned neighbor of trespassing. According to the plaintiff, the security guard \u201cgrabbed him, twisted his arm behind his back and threw him against his car to hold him,\u201d after he\u2019d come over to complain about Paul\u2019s reckless driving in the neighborhood \u2014 an attack he claims was \u201cracially motivated.\u201d For now, fans and critics alike await Paul\u2019s response to his alleged \u201cLitmas\u201d music lifting, which comes mere days after the release of his newest single, \u201cThese Days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul sued after reportedly stealing music for \u2018Litmas\u2019 song YouTube star Jake Paul released his Christmas-themed track \u201cLitmas\u201d two years ago \u2014 but the social media celeb is now being sued for the song, after three producers claim he stole their beats. While the lyrics might be his own, producers Shane Abrahams, Erik Belz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}