What Katy Perry will pay to copy 16 seconds of a song
Singer Katy Perry will have to pay more than $550,000 and her label will assume the rest of the sum. Perry claimed at trial never to have heard the song "Joyful Noise" from 2009. But even so, he was forced to pay the sum of money at the jury's decision.
On the other hand, the author requested the judge a payment for the plagiarism of 16 seconds of the rhythm of his song of 20 million dollars. Well, he claimed to have rights to the resources generated by the singer's song, which reached 40 million dollars.
In addition, the singer's work team said that the base rhythm of her song "Dark Horse" and that of "Joyful Noise" is very "common" and that for this reason copyright could not be discussed.
Even in the midst of the reasons given by the singer and her label to defend her song and avoid the payment imposed by the judge, the lawyers for rapper Gray insisted that the instrumental part of her song had been copied and that therefore they should pay the sum of money that would be imposed on them as they claimed copyright.
