Posted on 07/21/2019 4:17:27 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Expert witness Todd Decker alleges “five or six points of similarity" between Perry's 2013 hit [Dark Horse] and the 2008 Christian rap song "Joyful Noise."
Day two of the copyright infringement trial over Katy Perry’s 2013 single “Dark Horse” was characterized by more than one instance of live singing, but it wasn’t the pop star who was giving the performance.
Instead, Todd Decker -- a musicologist and professor who serves as the chair of music at Washington University in St. Louis -- belted out some tunes during his testimony on Friday (July 19). Serving as the plaintiffs' expert witness, Decker is just one cog in an effort to prove that Perry and her “Dark Horse” collaborators, including songwriter-producers Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald and Max Martin, copied the underlying beat from Marcus Gray’s 2008 Christian rap song “Joyful Noise” without the permission of he or his co-plaintiffs, Emanuel Lambert, aka Da Truth, and Chike Ojukwu. (The lawsuit was first filed in 2014.)
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Thoughtful comments. Thanks!
Rent seeker. I’m no fan of Perry but these lawsuits are simply looting operations.
FTA
“Joe Edwards is the owner of Blueberry Hill, the St. Louis club where Chuck Berry still performs every month.”
That has to be Fats Domino’s source for his song of the same name.
Thank you, and you’re welcome!
Absolutely. I would never leave you up the Creek. Our struggle would be a Seminole moment in history.
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