Yes it f***ing does.

She doesnt want to get caught in a lie, and face 5 years of jail time for lieing under oath. So she told the true.

Thats the intire point of the system, things you say under oath matter (which is why its heavily punished if you lie under it).

Thousands of women are raped and sexually harrassed everyday and you suggest that Sony should "ignore" it?

I'm glad that this case is getting the attention it deserves, nobody should ever have to go through this

PS:

Not a good look for Sony.... Especially when GAGA and swift fans are up in the tens of millions of ppl and teens who are moving into buying electronic goods

She swore it did not happen under oath and a Judge found not guilty, what more could be said for ignoring the petition?

I have seen very little evidence to suggest that the rape took place other than her word against his.

This is "Ke$ha"

Pretty much.

lol, yeah, and Michael Jackson rapes children...you are fucking hilarious.  Oh wait, I misspoke.  Raped children, he's dead.

Will happily sign that.

She testified that she wasn't raped under oath, there are no evidence for the rape at all. This proves that US is all about fucking shit over for the sake of fucking shit over. What about all the actual rape which have been proven to happen and the attacker got bailed out? Why don't these assholes do something about that? This world needs to die off

As is often the case with VGC, most of the commenters are totally misinformed. Kesha testified in a completely different case unrelated to this that she was not sexually assaulted by Dr. Luke, allegedly on the advice (read: "If you want your career to live you say this) of the label's lawyers. The whole argument here is that she was forced to lie under oath because he (allegedly) threatened her. She's screwed either way on perjury and she doesn't seem to care. The CURRENT issue at hand is that she is arguing that Sony should let her go or move her completely from the control of Dr. Luke's label because both sides refuse to make music. The contract, I believe, was for seven albums, and she needs six more*. Problem is, Sony's offer is to move her from his label but require him to directly produce half of the songs on each album henceforth, meaning she has to work with the man who (allegedly) raped her directly still. AND he'd still make a chunk of profits off of her work (which probably makes her sick).

Unrelated but she also hates her music but she can't up and change her sound because Sony has to approve any album for it to count towards that six.

She's not at this point to my knowledge arguing anything towards the rape allegation, she just wants to make music again without being near this guy.

Lastly, take into note that she's been under contract for a decade now and that this case has been going on silently for two years. It's not like this is a new issue that just suddenly came up. Look into the history between the two, if you're curious. She's openly hated the guy since at least she was famous enough to be heard. Hell, most of the famous singers that have worked with the guy seem to be in agreement that he's a piece of garbage.

*I think she released an EP at one point that may or may not count for that minimum.