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Katy Perry, Capitol Records, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald and others who worked on Perry's 2013 hit "Dark Horse" must pay a Christian rapper a combined $2.78 million in damages after a jury determined they copied his song in violation of his copyright.

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00:00Katy Perry, Dr. Luke and Capitol Records have been ordered to pay a combined

00:11$2.78 million in damages after a California jury found the singer's hit

00:16Dark Horse guilty of copyright infringement. Christian rapper Marcus Gray, known as

00:21Flame, filed a lawsuit in 2015 claiming that Perry's 2013 hit was very similar to

00:26his own work, titled Joyful Noise, specifically noting that the Dr. Luke

00:30produced song stole his underlying beat. Take a listen.

00:46After a week-long first phase of the trial and more than two days of deliberations,

00:49the jury found that there was indeed infringement. The case was then sent to damages,

00:54where the jury learned that Dark Horse was set to have earned $41 million total, with

00:58Perry taking in only a little over $3 million and the bulk of the revenue going to

01:03Capitol Records. The jury determined that Perry and the label owes Gray $2.78 million,

01:08with just over half a million owed by Perry and the remaining balance coming from the

01:12label. There is, however, still a pending motion from Perry's lawyer asking U.S.

01:16District Judge Christina Snyder to rule that no reasonable jury could find copyright

01:20infringement based on the evidence presented at trial. If that ends up being the case,

01:24the damages award could be disputed. For more updates on this story, keep it locked on THR.com.

01:30And until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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