Flower power! Orlando Bloom, Ashley Tisdale and more celebrities have named their children after plants over the years.
11.03.2022 - 02:43 / variety.com
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.
Flower power! Orlando Bloom, Ashley Tisdale and more celebrities have named their children after plants over the years.
Thomas Patrick Moran brought some Irish-flair to “American Idol” on Sunday night.
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that its feature documentary Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, co-directed by five-time Oscar nominee Frank Marshall (The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart) and Ryan Suffern (Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records), will hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on May 13, before expanding to additional markets in the following weeks. It will open against IFC Films’ horror-thriller The Innocents, Roadside Attractions’ comedy Family Camp and Universal’s horror-thriller Firestarter starring Zac Efron and more.
Katy Perry is capable of anything and everything.
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.
Katy Perry scored another decisive victory in court.
It seems Emily Atack is attempting to dye her hair every pastel colour going before we hit Easter.The Inbetweeners star only just unveiled a peachy pink colour last week, but has already decided to switch up her look again to a pastel purple. It’s clear, however, Emily hasn’t gone for a permanent colour change this time, as the shiny lilac hue is definitely the result of a wig.The whole look, which is meant to mimic Katy Perry’s iconic California Gurls get-up, was for a new episode of Celebrity Juice.
The next big thing? Kenedi Anderson more than impressed the judges during the Sunday, March 6, episode of American Idol, with Luke Bryan declaring that the 17-year-old “might be the biggest star we’ve ever seen” in the show’s history.
Lady K dared to take on a Katy Perry song in front of the lady herself on Sunday’s “American Idol”, and her efforts paid off.
Kenedi Anderson just landed her biggest fan.
American Idol is back on ABC, ringing in its milestone 20th season with a primetime ratings win.
American Idol is upping things for the 20th season of the show, and introducing Platinum Tickets for those auditioning for the show.
Orlando Bloom, 45, has a new set of wheels! The actor was photographed picking up his incredible custom Lucid Air sedan, which is estimated to cost a whopping $169,000, at a Beverly Hills location on Feb. 25 and couldn’t help but smile from ear to ear during the epic moment. The black electric vehicle shined like a brand new vehicle should and was surrounded by people that Orlando mingled with before getting inside and driving away.