Katy Perry wins plagiarism case

This is (perhaps) the end of a marathon procedure for Katy Perry.

The singer had been opposed to rapper Marcus Gray since 2014, when the latter, known by the stage name Flame, filed a complaint against the popstar for similarities between

, his 2013 hit, and the much more confidential track of the artist,

.

In question: the ostinato, a rhythm reused ad infinitum in

, which indeed resembled a theme that we hear in

.

If obvious similarities existed between the two pieces, it took more than eight years for justice to rule on the possible plagiarism of which Flame would have been the victim.

"The part of

's ostinato that resembles

's ostinato consists of an obviously conventional arrangement of musical building blocks.

Allowing a copyright in this part would essentially allow an unfair monopoly over sequences of two-note pitches or even the minor scale itself,” the appeals court wrote in its ruling, according to Billboard. .

He is everywhere

To prove that this theme has been used very frequently since the dawn of time, the court cited two very popular songs in the United States,

and

, Christmas songs which use a similar melody.

Everything has not always been so clear since at first, Katy Perry had been sentenced in 2019, but a judge had canceled the decision a year later.

Marcus Gray had therefore appealed, and has just lost.

Last option for the rapper: file an appeal with the Supreme Court of the United States.

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