Katy Perry is taking on a new project.
11.03.2022 - 03:15 / justjared.com
Katy Perry scored another decisive victory in court.
The 37-year-old Prism pop star has faced litigation over her 2013 smash “Dark Horse” for years, and a federal appeals court just made a decision on Thursday (March 10).
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If you don’t remember, a rapper named Marcus Gray sued her in 2014, accusing her of ripping off his song “Joyful Noise.” Jurors later awarded him the verdict at first, but a judge overturned that decision in 2020, saying that the rhythm she allegedly copied was too simple for copyright protection.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld that decision in a 3-to-0 vote, via Billboard, refusing to reinstate the $2.8 million copyright infringement verdict because the two songs share only basic musical “building blocks.”
“The portion of the Joyful Noise ostinato that overlaps with the Dark Horse ostinato consists of a manifestly conventional arrangement of musical building blocks,” the appeals court wrote.
“Allowing a copyright over this material would essentially amount to allowing an improper monopoly over two-note pitch sequences or even the minor scale itself.”
Unless the case heads to the U.S. Supreme Court, the ruling ends years of litigation over “Dark Horse.” Check out the full filing at Billboard.com.
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Katy Perry is taking on a new project.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorKaty Perry will bring to life the story of Elizabeth Taylor in a new podcast series, which promises never-before-heard stories about the legendary actor and entrepreneur billed as Hollywood’s “original influencer.”“Elizabeth the First,” a 10-part podcast series narrated by Perry, is slated to premiere later this spring on all major podcast platforms. The series is produced by Imperative Entertainment in association with House of Taylor, which oversees the late actor’s estate, and Perry’s Kitty Purry Productions.Regarding Taylor, Perry said in a statement provided to Variety, “Like most people, I was attracted to her glamour, and in my own life, I continue to find myself referencing her through some of my visuals.” Perry continued, “I’ve always felt a kinship towards her — I’ve even literally bathed in the same bathtub where she made that bar-setting ‘Cleopatra’ deal! I’m inspired by her bold activism, her constant boss moves in business, and through it all, an unapologetic way of loving — all things I try to live in my own life.
NEW YORK -- Katy Perry is getting into the podcast business, narrating a series about another superstar, Elizabeth Taylor.“Elizabeth The First,” produced by Perry, House of Taylor and Imperative, is a 10-episode series about Taylor as the original influencer.Topics include how Taylor negotiated the first $1M salary to star in 1963's “Cleopatra," and the creation of a fragrance empire when celebrity-endorsed productions was not common or popular. Thirty years since its launch, White Diamonds remains a top global fragrance brand.The podcast will also discuss how Taylor used her celebrity to call attention to HIV/AIDS and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and include rare stories from people who knew her best.In a statement, Perry says of Taylor, “like most people, I was attracted to her glamour...
Katy Perry has certainly left a memorable impression on this season's slate of contestants.The songstress and judge picked up the mic on Monday's new episode to belt out an impromptu rendition of her hit single «Teenage Dream,» and ended up teaching the young up-and-coming singers a lesson in keeping your composure.Right as Perry hit the lyric, «Put your hands on me and my skintight jeans,» the singer's own skintight coral red pleather pants split in the rear and she bent over.Instead of running off stage in embarrassment, Perry simply asked of the production crew, «Can I get some tape? Some gaffer tape?»ima get ur heart racing in my skin-tight jeans on #americanidol tonight
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Teenage Dream singer was attempting to perform to the American Idol audience her Grammy award-nominated song. Katy Perry took it like a champ, like the professional she is, and kept going as stage crew members assisted with covering the rip.Watch below:This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Perry has long known how to poke fun at herself, and later took to her Instagram to joke about the incident. As for the other hosts of American Idol, Lionel Richie and were shown assisting Katy Perry after her pants split.
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Katy Perry has seemingly reacted to her recent copyright appeal case win during a show in Las Vegas – watch footage below.Perry is currently nearing the end of her residency at Las Vegas’ Resorts World Theatre and during Friday night’s performance (March 11), she changed the lyrics to ‘Dark Horse’ to reference her recent legal victory.Instead of singing “So just be sure before you give it up to me, up to me, give it up to me”, Perry sang “So just be sure before you take me to court, ’cause I’m a scorpio, bitch!“Watch footage below:displaying iconic behavior as alwayspic.twitter.com/27M62BfISe— Ivy
Katy Perry is celebrating her victory in court.
Katy Perry has won a copyright infringement case against a rapper who claimed she stole his music to make her hit single ‘Dark Horse’.On Thursday (March 10) a federal appeals court refused to reinstate the original $2.8million verdict against Perry.In 2014, when Marcus Gray, who performs as Flame, alleged that the pop singer had copied his track ‘Joyful Noise’, jurors sided with him. However, in 2020 a judge overturned the original verdict.At the time, the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ copyright ruling was used as a precedent for overruling the initial verdict, noting that the notes Perry repeated during the song, were too simple to justify copyright protection.
Katy Perry has won an appeals battle over her hit Dark Horse, and will no longer have to pay $2. 8m (£2. 1m) to a rapper who claimed she stole his song.
The Ninth Circuit appeals court in the US yesterday sided with Katy Perry in the big old ‘Dark Horse’ song theft case. The musical elements Perry’s hit has in common with earlier track ‘Joyful Noise’ were “commonplace” and therefore not protected by copyright in isolation, judges concluded.
Ethan Shanfeld A federal appeals court ruled in Katy Perry’s favor in the “Dark Horse” copyright lawsuit against Christian rapper Marcus Gray.Gray, whose stage name is Flame, first sued Perry in 2014, claiming her hit “Dark Horse” was substantially similar to his song “Joyful Noise.” In 2019, a Los Angeles jury found Perry liable for infringement, but the verdict was overturned a year later when a judge ruled that the eight-note “ostinato” Perry allegedly copied lacked the “quantum of originality” to warrant copyright protection.Gray appealed the decision in October 2020, writing in a brief about the incriminating similarity of timbre between the songs, and arguing against the musicologists’ use of databases of melodies to determine instances of similarities in previous works. On March 10, 2022, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the District Court’s overturning the initial jury verdict.