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Katy Perry, others ordered to pay $2.8M for copying song

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Katy Perry, along with her collaborators and record label, have been ordered to pay $2.8 million by a jury.

Christian rapper Marcus Gray had sought nearly $20 million in his claim that Perry's 2013 hit "Dark Horse" copied his 2009 song "Joyful Noise."

Perry was ordered to pay more than $550,000 of the total. Capitol Records is responsible for most of it.

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