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Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Much of the music industry heaved a collective sigh of relief when the news broke Thursday that Ed Sheeran was found not liable on a copyright claim alleging that he copied key elements from the Marvin Gaye ‘70s hit “Let’s Get It On” for his own song “Thinking Out Loud.” The case is one of countless similar infringement cases that have been brought before courts, settled, or continue in seemingly endless loops of appeals. But there’s little question that recent ones — at least the ones that followed the 2015 “Blurred Lines” decision that shook the industry — have sided with creators. The lawsuit around Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” went on for five years before being decided initially in favor of Christian rapper Marcus Gray — who claimed her song was substantially similar to his earlier track “Joyful Noise” — but was overturned in 2020 when a judge ruled that the eight-note “ostinato” Perry allegedly copied lacked the “quantum of originality” to warrant copyright protection (Gray’s appeal was unsuccessful). Later in 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the long-running copyright battle over Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” leaving in place a ruling that rejected infringement allegations over the 1971 song. The justices denied a petition aimed at reviving the case, ending six years of litigation over claims that the song’s writers, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, plagiarized the song’s iconic intro from the 1968 song “Taurus” by the group Spirit.

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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.

Katy Perry scored another decisive victory in court.

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.

Judges in the US Ninth Circuit appeals court maintained their skeptical position yesterday regarding extending copyright protection to short segments of music. Or at least that’s how it seemed as Christian rapper Marcus Gray tried to persuade them to overturn a lower court judgement in his song theft legal battle with Katy Perry.Gray accuses Perry and her collaborators of ripping off his song ‘Joyful Noise’ on her 2013 hit ‘Dark Horse’.

Katy Perry’s legal team have urged the Ninth Circuit appeals court in the US to keep in place a lower court ruling in the big song-theft legal battle over her track ‘Dark Horse’. Doing otherwise, they add, would go against the appeal court’s own judgement in the headline-grabbing ‘Stairway To Heaven’ case.Marcus Gray accuses Katy Perry and her collaborators of ripping off his song ‘Joyful Noise’ on her 2013 hit.

The rapper who accused Katy Perry of ripping off his song ‘Joyful Noise’ on her hit ‘Dark Horse’ has submitted a new brief with the Ninth Circuit appeals court.

Katy Perry has successfully appealed a copyright ruling against her 2013 single Dark Horse.

In August 2019, a jury in Los Angeles federal court found that Katy Perry’s 2013 hit, “Dark Horse,” infringed on the copyright of a 2008 Christian rap song titled “Joyful Noise” by Marcus Gray, who records under the name Flame. The jury awarded $2.8 million in damages to Gray and his co-writers. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder overturned the verdict on appeal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Katy Perry has successfully appealed a copyright ruling against her 2013 single Dark Horse.

Katy Perry scored a big legal win on Tuesday when a judge overturned a copyright infringement verdict regarding her hit single “Dark Horse.”

LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge in Los Angeles handed a major victory to Katy Perry on Tuesday, overturning a jury's verdict that found the pop superstar and her collaborators copied her 2013 hit “Dark Horse” from a 2009 Christian rap song.

Katy Perry has scored a major win in her long-running copyright battle over the song Dark Horse.

Katy Perry scored a big legal win on Tuesday when a judge overturned a copyright infringement verdict regarding her hit single «Dark Horse.»

Experts claim the jury in the copyright case found wrongly in the plaintiffs favour