English singer-songwriter Sam Smith has been paying rock icon Tom Petty songwriting royalties since October of 2014, following a copyright dispute over his hit single Stay With Me. The beef apparently broke out after listeners noted that Stay With Me and the 1989 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers hit, Won’t Back Down, were basically the same song.
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