Katy Perry loses DarkHorse copyright trial
, as well as Capitol Records, Warner Bros. Music Corporation, Kobalt Publishing and Kasz Money Inc.
After a trial lasting seven days, the jury of six women and three men ultimately decided in favor of the plaintiffs, who set out to prove that Perry and her co-defendants had -- either knowingly or unknowingly -- copied the “Joyful Noise” beat for “Dark Horse.” Today’s outcome follows a landmark 2015 decision in the trial over Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” in which a jury ordered Thicke and his co-writer/producer Pharrell Williams to pay a combined $7.4 million to the estate of late soul singer Marvin Gaye for infringing the copyright of Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.
That lack of availability was a core argument of the defense, with Perry, Dr. Luke and co-writer Max Martin all testifying that they had never heard “Joyful Noise” prior to being sued and defense lawyers arguing that out of trillions of YouTube views between 2008 and 2012, the “Dark Horse” writers were highly unlikely to have come across Gray’s religious-themed track.
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