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Justin Bieber sued over hit song 'Sorry'

Also in Tattle: Rihanna’s sunglasses, Miranda’s boutique, Johnny and Amber’s divorce, Bradley Cooper, Leona Lewis and slow TV

WHEN IS borrowing a piece of music an

homage and when is it thievery?

According to MTV.com, Massachusetts songwriter Casey Dienel (a/k/a White Hinterland) is suing Justin Bieber because she claims the Biebs has taken the vocal riff which opens her 2014 song "Ring the Bell" and uses it (or a rerecorded version) to open his new hit "Sorry."

It's only a few notes but they're recognizable notes. And if someone borrowed the first four notes from Beethoven's 5th Symphony (perhaps the four most recognizable notes of all-time), chances are Beethoven would have said "wait a minute" if there were copyrights and recording devices back in the day.

MTV says Dienel reportedly asked Bieber to stop using the song last December, a request that he ignored.

He didn't even say sorry.

Dienel is also suing producers Skrillex and Blood (a/k/a Michael Tucker), as well as the song's busy, hit-writing co-writers Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels. Yes, it took five people to write "Sorry."

In a 2015 interview with The Fader magazine, Blood said he wrote the now litigating loop.

So is this a case of four notes being in the ether, a case of unconscious remembrance (similar to "He's So Fine" becoming "My Sweet Lord") or a case of this sounds cool and this White Hinterland woman is never going to sue us.

Rihanna framed

Rihanna

isn't just wearing Dior, she's designing Dior.

People magazine reports that RiRi has teamed up with the Dior accessories department to create her own pair of futuristic, metallic, Geordi La Forge-inspired sunglasses.

The glasses are called "Rihanna" so Dior didn't spend much R&D coming up with a name.

Unfortunately, you're going to have to be Rihanna to afford them.

"Rihanna" shades will be available in six colors for $840, with a 24-karat gold-plated pair retailing for $1,950.

TATTBITS

* "Limitless" had a limit after all.

Nineteen episodes.

The TV series, executive produced by former Daily News intern Bradley Cooper, and based on his 2011 movie, has been canceled by CBS.

Miranda Lambert is closing her Pink Pistol clothing boutique in the tiny Oklahoma town of Tishomingo, where she and her ex-husband, Blake Shelton, once shared a home.

Lambert said that Pink Pistol will reopen later this summer in her hometown of Lindale, Texas. Opened in late 2012, the boutique drew tourists and shoppers to Tishomingo, a town of 3,000 residents about 115 miles southeast of Oklahoma City.

Shelton said on Twitter that he bought the building where Pink Pistol is located and that "something is brewing" for the space.

With Blake, isn't something always brewing?

* British singer Leona Lewis ("Bleeding Love") will play the ragged and lonely star Grizabella in the Broadway revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats."

The former British X Factor winner will get to sing the show's signature song, "Memory."

The "Cats" revival begins previews July 14 at Broadway's Neil Simon Theater and opening night is July 31.

Tattle doesn't review much theater, but human beings dressed up as cats totally skeeves us.

Amber Heard has filed for divorce from Johnny Depp, her husband of 15 months.

She's 30. He's 52.

The couple's separation on Sunday came mere days after the death of Depp's mother, Betty Sue Palmer.

That's a really bad week.

TMZ.com reported that Depp and Heard did not have a prenup. The Associated Press reported she is seeking spousal support.

* A Norwegian consumers' group took inspiration from "slow television" to produce a marathon webcast of a team of readers going through the fine print of terms and conditions of downloadable apps.

Finn Myrstad from the Norwegian Consumer Council says the idea was to point out the "absurdity" and even illegality of some of the conditions.

"We got the idea from slow TV, and we wanted to expose the absurdity of the terms and conditions of when you download an app," he told the Associated Press. "You usually don't read them because they're either too long or complicated, and many of them breach consumer law and data protection laws."

The show began on Tuesday morning, with the team reading through the terms of around 30 popular apps. It ended 32 hours later. The council later tweeted a 12-second recap of the broadcast.

Norway has popularized "slow television," putting five hours of knitting, a fire burning itself out and minute-by-minute salmon fishing live on TV.

So for those of you folks threatening to move to Canada depending on the November election results, keep in mind there's a country where you can watch five hours of knitting.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.

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