Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' is going to cost her a lot of green, but her record label is paying twice as much for ripping off the tune.
's"Dark Horse" is going to cost her a lot of green, but her record label is paying twice as much for ripping off the tune.
The federal jury in L.A. just dished out the damages, and the pop singer will have to pay $550k to Christian rapperand 7 other songwriters on"Dark Horse" for jacking his tune,"Joyful Noise." Capitol Records was also a defendant, and the jury ordered it to pay the lion's share ... $1.2 million. In all, Flame will get a total of $2.7 million from all the defendants. The jury said his song was responsible for 22.5 percent of the"Dark Horse" profits.The jury's decision on hefty damages came after hearing 2 full days of testimony about how much Perry's megahit and the album it was on, Prism, have earned since release. Katy's cut, to date, has been $3.2 mil ... while Capitol Records earned $31 million.improperly copiedAs we reported ...
However, Flame's legal team was able to convince the jury that his song was popular and prevalent enough to have been heard and ripped off ... and that's exactly what Perry and her team did. By the way ... the"Dark Horse" music video currently has 2.6 BILLION YouTube views. Gotta wonder if it was worth it.
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