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Katy Perry, Collaborators Ordered to Pay $2.78M for Copying Christian Song
www.breitbart.com ^ | 2 Aug 19 | hapnHal

Posted on 08/02/2019 7:11:05 PM PDT by hapnHal

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katy Perry, her collaborators and her record label must pay more than $2.78 million because the pop star’s 2013 hit “Dark Horse” copied a 2009 Christian rap song, a federal jury decided Thursday.

It was an underdog victory for rapper Marcus Gray, a relatively obscure artist once known as Flame, whose 5-year-old lawsuit survived constant court challenges and a trial against top-flight attorneys for Perry and the five other music-industry heavyweights who wrote her song.

The amount fell well short of the nearly $20 million sought by attorneys for Gray and the two co-writers of “Joyful Noise” — Emanuel Lambert and Chike Ojukwu — but they said they were pleased.

“We weren’t here seeking to punish anyone,” said Gray’s attorney, Michael A. Kahn. “Our clients came here seeking justice, and they feel they received justice from a jury of their peers.”

Perry herself was hit for just over $550,000, with Capitol Records responsible for the biggest part of the award — $1.2 million. Defense attorneys had argued for an overall award of about $360,000.

Perry’s attorney, Christine Lepera, said they plan to vigorously fight the decision.

“The writers of Dark Horse consider this a travesty of justice,” Lepera said.

“Dark Horse,” which combines elements of pop, hip-hop and trap styles, was a mega-hit for the Santa Barbara, California-born singer, with its call-and-response chorus of “Are you ready for (ready for), a perfect storm (perfect storm)?”

It spent four weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in early 2014, and Perry would later perform it at the Super Bowl.

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To: SunkenCiv

great song by Harrison, thanks! I won’t waste the time to listen to the Katy Perry song


21 posted on 08/03/2019 5:53:35 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: a fool in paradise

PMJ covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anx5IctHVGU


22 posted on 08/03/2019 6:40:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Thanks. That does explain the theft. The examples I cited were similar, but not exact.


23 posted on 08/03/2019 6:47:31 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Tacrolimus1mg
I designed characters and wrote stories which were copied in a television show about four years later, almost exactly, after sharing my writings online. Am I entitled to compensation

Talk to copy right lawyer. Seriously. Don't delay.

24 posted on 08/03/2019 6:57:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Magic Fingers

WHAT RAPPERS SAY TO AVOID PAYING FOR BEATS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33xtnaSh7EI


25 posted on 08/03/2019 6:58:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

George Harrison - This Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0i9rjTxhpY


26 posted on 08/03/2019 7:01:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: YogicCowboy

Out of the Woods - Country Version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLTuYFISZQ


27 posted on 08/03/2019 7:07:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ghost of nixon
Good choice.

28 posted on 08/03/2019 7:21:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BenLurkin

Haha - that’s great. Gotta show that to my son - he’ll love it.


29 posted on 08/03/2019 9:03:37 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

>>I also believe that Perry doesn’t listen to Christian music and had no clue who they are. <<

Well, that’s where you’re wrong. Perry started out in Christian music, releasing an album as Katy Hudson.


30 posted on 08/03/2019 10:59:53 AM PDT by dangus
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To: DAC21

They’re just both annoying undifferentiated noise, not “music”.

Rap = Krap

How could anyone tell if something was copied? They all sound alike: pumped up bass, caterwauling “lyrics” shouted over the bass and drums.

This is NOT music.


31 posted on 08/03/2019 11:05:28 AM PDT by hadit2here ("The urge to save humanity is nearly always a cover for the urge to rule." -- H.L. Mencken)
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To: hapnHal

She helped cause the death of a nun.
Payment for that will come later.


32 posted on 08/03/2019 11:51:37 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: dangus

That is what I had thought. As I recall, she is a P.K. (Preacher’s Kid). The song in question was from the general period when she would likely have been exposed to it. (I am not saying I entirely agree with these kinds of suits.)

Similarly, Joy Williams, of the erstwhile Civil Wars [Hunger Games soundtrack], started out in CCM (or whatever they call it now). I think she was the daughter of the man who operated the Mount Hermon retreat facility in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I never met her, but I knew someone from her class at Valley Christian High, where I think Williams graduated as Valedictorian.


33 posted on 08/03/2019 4:37:44 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy

Was = Is. She is living; her father is deceased.


34 posted on 08/03/2019 4:41:51 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: SunkenCiv
LOL! Took the idea right out of my brain! Thanks for saving me the trouble.

ff

35 posted on 08/03/2019 5:00:13 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: foreverfree

:^)


36 posted on 08/03/2019 8:25:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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