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Aug. 2, 2019
Jury says Katy Perry owes Christian rapper $2.8M for infringement
A federal jury has ordered Katy Perry and her fellow defendants to pay $2.78 million for infringing a 16-second snippet from a Christian rapper’s song.
Katy Perry / New York Times News Service
A federal jury has ordered Katy Perry and her fellow defendants to pay $2.78 million for infringing a 16-second snippet from a Christian rapper's song.
Having earlier this week found the defendants liable for infringement in connection with Perry's 2013 mega-hit "Dark Horse," the jury found Perry personally earned $2.4 million from the success of the track. They ordered her to pay 22.5% of that, or about $550,000, to Gray.
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