This is very dangerous indeed. There are no similarities between those two pieces of music other than the language of music itself. The contested form has been used for centuries and certainly is in the public domain.

It is like Hemingway's heirs suing the Ziggy cartoonist for using the some of the same words as "Old Man & The Sea".

I hope Ms. Perry appeals and wins and collects her legal fees.

Ever since the also very wrong "Blurred Lines" decision, it seems like open season for gold diggers via the legal system.

The reason for the copyright laws is so that the plagiarizer couldn't copy another authors work and thus diminish the sales of the original work. I can't see how this tune by Ms. Perry stole one penny of profit from the original.

This is not justice, it's theft via the legal system.

The "Christian" rapper called Flame is not acting very Christ-Like - Thou shalt not steal.

But then it's a lot easier to call yourself a Christian than to act Christ-like

Always striving to act Christ-Like is something the nuns in parochial school drummed into our heads on a daily basis for all the years I was in Catholic school.

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