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14 March 2022CopyrightAlex Baldwin

Katy Perry prevails in ‘Dark Horse’ copyright suit

Katy Perry will not need to pay $2.8 million to a rapper who accused her of copying a part of his song in her 2013 hit “Dark Horse”.

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9 January 2020   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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Katy Perry says she suffered a ‘miscarriage of justice’ in copyright trial
11 October 2019   Katy Perry has labelled a jury’s decision to find her liable for copyright infringement over her song “Dark Horse” and award a Christian rapper $2.7 million in damages as a “grave miscarriage of justice”.


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