US Federal Judge hands a major victory to Katy Perry in ‘Dark Horse’ copyright case

A federal judge in Los Angeles handed a major victory to singer Katy Perry, overturning a jury's verdict that found that the pop superstar and her collaborators copied her 2013 hit ‘Dark Horse’ from a 2009 Christian rap song.
According to reports on international portals, US District Judge Christina A Snyder said in her decision that the disputed section of the rap song ‘Joyful Noise’ by rapper Marcus Gray was allegedly “not particularly unique or rare combination” to be protected by copyright as the jury found.
Last July, A jury found that Katy Perry's 2013 hit 'Dark Horse' improperly copied a 2009 Christian rap song, setting up arguments over how much the singer and other defendants will owe.
The decision came five years after Marcus Gray and two co-authors first sued alleging 'Dark Horse' stole from 'Joyful Noise', a song Gray released under the stage name Flame.
Gray's attorneys had argued that the beat and instrumental line featured through nearly half of 'Dark Horse' are substantially similar to those of 'Joyful Noise'.

'Dark Horse', a hybrid of pop, trap and hip-hop sounds that was the third single of Perry's 2013 album 'Prism', spent four weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in early 2014, and earned Perry a Grammy nomination.
Meanwhile, on the personal front, Katy announced early this month that she is expecting her first child with fiance Orlando Bloom. The singer made the big reveal in her 'Never Worn White' music video.