Kesha is going to fight the judge’s decision in the Dr. Luke case, and her attorney has gone as far to liken the decision to “slavery.” On Monday (March 21) Kesha and her lawyer submitted paperwork that will allow the courts to review Judge Shirley Kornreich’s decision to deny a preliminary injunction that would permit Kesha to create music entirely free of Dr. Luke and his companies. A New York appellate court will weigh in on the original decision.
“Plaintiff seeks reversal of the Order on the following grounds,” her most recent court papers said according to Billboard. “First, the Court erred in basing its decision on its finding that Kesha could record without inference from Gottwald. Although it recognized that ‘slavery was done away with a long time ago’ and that ‘you can’t force someone to work… in a situation in which they don’t want to work,’ the courts ruling requiring Kesha to work for Gottwald’s companies, purportedly without his involvement, does just that.”
Kesha’s attorney, Mark Geragos, asserts that Judge Kornreich made a hasty decision, without considering the statements of those in the industry who described just how damaging recording under Dr. Luke’s purview would be for the pop star. Kornreich initially seemed happy with Sony’s offer to allow the pop star to record without Dr. Luke’s physical present or input, which does, in the end, favor Dr. Luke as he is still profiting from her career.
On Dr. Luke’s end, a report recently surfaced that claimed that Sony was going to be dropping Dr. Luke from their ranks before his contract expires in 2017. His camp released a statement to many news outlets that read, “This is not true. Luke has an excellent relationship with Sony. His representatives are in regular contact with executives at the highest levels at Sony and this has never come up.”
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