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Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Juicy J were also found guilty
A jury ruled that Katy Perry's Darky song, taken from her 2013 album, Prism, copied the beat of a Christian rap song, "Joyful Noise" by Flame.
according to Display panel, the verdict on Monday (July 29) also found that the collaborators of "Dark Horse" Perry were liable to prosecution: namely the producers Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Cirkut, the guest artist Juicy J and the author -composer Sarah Hudson. Capitol Records, Warner Bros. Music Corporation, Kobalt Publishing and Kasz Money Inc. were also found guilty.
Flame, aka Marcus Gray, beatmaker Chike Ojuwku and co-author of "Joyful Noise," Emanuel Lambert, sued Perry and his badociates in 2014, claiming that "Dark Horse" had used the beat of their 2008 song without authorization. 'Joyful Noise', which includes other Christian artists Lecrae and John Reilly, is the final song of the Grammy-nominated Flame gospel album 'Our World: Redeemed'. Listen to it below:
By The New York TimesGray also claimed that "anti-Christian witchcraft, paganism, dark magic, and Illuminati images evoked by" Dark Horse, "especially in the music video version," tarnished his reputation as a Christian gospel artist. The video of 'Dark Horse', directed by Matthew Cullen, portrays Perry as an Egyptian pharaoh in Memphis, Egypt, 'a fool long ago'. Revisit it below:
The pop star appeared in court on the first day of the copyright lawsuit on July 18. Perry told the court that she had never heard of "Joyful Noise" before the trial – an badertion also invoked by Dr. Luke and Martin – and stated that even when she was making music as a Christian artist before her pop career, she listened "almost always … secular music anyway," Display panel reports.
After a seven-day trial, which also heard the testimony of musicologists, the jury of nine people ruled in favor of Gray. Perry was not present when reading the verdict. The next part of the trial, which determines how much Perry and his badociates owe damages, begins this Tuesday, July 30.
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