Anitta has won a court ruling dismissing a lawsuit that claimed she stole key elements of her 2023 hit Funk Rave. Two songwriters had claimed that the Brazilian star ripped off their 2006 song, but a federal judge has deemed the case flawed and said that the star had likely never heard the accusers' song. Giorgio Trovato and Giuseppe Di Caccamo Jr claimed in a January lawsuit that the Brazilian superstar, real name Larissa de Macedo Machado, had lifted the rhythm and chorus of their 2006 song, Sácalo. The judge ruled their claim as "speculative at best". "Allowing plaintiffs' claims to proceed on such unsubstantiated and unpled theories would not pass muster," Judge Moore wrote. Trovato and Di Caccamo sued Anitta in January, claiming that portions of Funk Rave were "substantially similar, if not identical" to their song, which they said had been released in 2007 by a group named Erotico. Anitta would have been 14 at the time. In any American copyright lawsuit, an accuser must show that a defendant had "access" to the original work to give them a chance to copy it. Judge Moore also suggested the songs weren't similar enough for a case to proceed.