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Katy Perry's hit Dark Horse copied a Christian rap song, jury finds

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  1. Octofox
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    Just another one of the reasons copyright needs to be totally wiped out and built again with some amount of sense. These music cases have been popping up regularly for a while now with absolutely...

    Just another one of the reasons copyright needs to be totally wiped out and built again with some amount of sense. These music cases have been popping up regularly for a while now with absolutely tiny parts of songs that are only slightly similar. Its interesting that this seems fairly limited to music. Its like someone claiming dreamworks stole the idea of "animated boy with brown hair".

    Some of my favourite songs use the entirety of classic piano songs out of copyright and add extra elements to it to make something new and great. Its such a shame that this is legally not possible now. There should be protection from someone directly taking the whole thing and adding no extra value but you should be able to go as far as using an entire melody or sampling parts of a song to create something new.

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  2. alyaza
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    this happened over the week, apparently. the damages for this total out to almost 3 million dollars, as a follow-up CBC article covers (most of that is not on perry's dime). this is also the...

    this happened over the week, apparently. the damages for this total out to almost 3 million dollars, as a follow-up CBC article covers (most of that is not on perry's dime). this is also the latest in a string of similar copyright disputes/lawsuits over fairly popular songs, and although i haven't seen anything about it, i assume this is a somewhat controversial decision like the whole copyright dispute over "blurred lines" was.

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  3. Morkva
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    Here's Anthony Fantano's (theneedledrop - music critic, memelord) opinion on this case.

    Here's Anthony Fantano's (theneedledrop - music critic, memelord) opinion on this case.

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