9 January 2020CopyrightSarah Morgan

Rapper urges court to ignore 'friends of Katy Perry' brief

The Christian rapper at the heart of the “Dark Horse” copyright clash is attempting to bar the submission of an amicus brief by a group of musicologists, which he claims is “unabashedly partisan” to Katy Perry’s arguments.

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