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A recent California jury decision in a copyright infringement lawsuit has many in the music world worried. The case found that the writers of Katy Perrys 2013 hit Dark Horse featuring Juicy J had copied a part of a 2008 song called Joyful Noise by Christian hip-hop artist Flame. The jury awarded Flame nearly $2.8 million in damages. Dark Horse writers and producers Perry, Dr. Luke, Sarah Hudson, Juicy J, Max Martin and Cirkut called the decisionLinks to an external site. a travesty of justice, according to Variety. There is no infringement. There was no access of substantial similarity, the writers said in a statement. Popular Youtuber and musician Adam NeelyLinks to an external site. agrees that the case was unfairly decided. He says the ruling sets a dangerous precedent in the music industry. He and other musicians he knows are pretty scared of the wider implications this case may cause, because the part of the song that came under scrutiny is such a small little melodic fragment that I don't feel like it is unique to Joyful Noise, he says. The two songs don't share the same melody, chord progression or drum groove, he explains. But they do share a similar ostinato, which Merriam-Webster describes as a musical figure repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a composition. Neely argues the ostinato isnt a significant part of the song. In this case, the jury found that there was a striking similarity between the two pieces of music, he says. Now the problem from my perspective is that you could find that same striking similarity between any number of different kinds of music [and] any number of different pieces of music throughout history. To make his point, Neely took a couple of other well-known pieces of music and used a synthesizer to show how similar they could be to "Joyful Noise." Neely foresees a difficult path forward, saying that if the jurys copyright ruling is applied to every piece of music, the music industry will be in a morass of copyright infringement laws.

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