The music producer's defamation case may hinge on whether he's seen as a public figure or private citizen. He shouldn't have talked about how famous he is!
that Dr. Luke, née Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald, is a public figure and therefore must prove in his defamation case that Kesha acted with “actual malice” in making the allegations against him back then. This decision reverses a mid-level New York appeals court ruling in 2021 that Gottwald is a private citizen, which lowers the threshold for proving defamation from “malice” to simple “negligence.
”’s apparent egomania worked in her favor, as the New York Court had a bunch of statements by the producerBy 2014, when Gottwald [Dr. Luke] initiated this defamation action, he was, by his own account, a celebrity—an acclaimed music producer who had achieved enormous success in a high-profile career. As self-described in the complaint, he “has written the most Number One songs of any songwriter ever” and “was named by Billboard as one of the top ten producers of the decade in 2009.
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