KATY PERRY FILES APPEAL TO REVRSE COPYRIGHT VERDICT !
Katy Perry,
Along with the collaborators of her 2013 track dark horse, has filed an appeal seeking a reversal or new trial in their copyright infringement suit. In almost a week-long trial in July, a California jury found perry and collaborators guilty of stealing christian rapper Marcus Gray popularly known as Flame's song Joyful Noise, and thus made them liable to pay USD 2.78 million (19 Crore Approx) in damages.
According to the appeal filed on wednesday, as cited by a hollywood website, they are asking the jury to either overturn or grant a new trial on "The legally unsupportable jury verdicts in this music copyright infringement case that are widely recognised within the music industry- and beyond - as a grave miscarriage of justice."The erroneous verdicts in this case and the precedent established thereby present serious harm to music creators and to the music industry as a whole, "the appeal added.
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