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« on: March 19, 2015, 06:19:40 AM »

You all have probably already heard of it: The most famous song about rape and Jamaican cacti is a plagiarism of Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gaye, the song which Thicke personally claimed was an influence on "Blurred Lines".

On March 10, 2015, a jury found Thicke and Pharrell Williams liable for copyright infringement. The unanimous jury awarded Gaye's family US$7.4 million in damages for copyright infringement.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/10/entertainment/feat-thr-marvin-gaye-robin-thicke-pharrell-lose-blurred-lines-lawsuit/index.html

That verdict is highly controversial, as it is supposed to restrict musicians' creativity. Keith Urban said that "My initial reaction from it, I was shocked, honestly. Seems more like a sound and a feel and a style and a genre and an era, none of which can be copyrighted." Classical music critic Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times pointed out that many classical composers used material from previous composers saying that "John Williams all but lifted the core idea of his soundtrack score from the Scherzo of Erich Korngold's Symphony in F-sharp Minor, written 25 years earlier."

Thicke and Williams have announced their intention to appeal the verdict.

The third video within the CNN aticle is pretty instructive; legal analyst Paul Callan, who is extremely skeptical about the validity of the verdict, explains the difference between copying a whole song and copying elements of a song, and he explains the importance of sheet music for a plagiarism case.

And here is Nona Gaye's extremely theatrical and affected interview:

https://youtu.be/ctM515BeaA8
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« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2015, 07:05:09 AM »

Yes it is.

But Marvin Gaye's family is terrible and can screw.
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« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2015, 12:01:20 PM »

This lawsuit is obviously a terrible thing for music and terrible from a law perspective.
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« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2015, 12:16:29 PM »

The ruling will be overturned, as the instructions to the jury were horrible. But that we're even having a legal dispute over this in the first place shows just how perverse our intellectual property system has become. If the choice were between our current system and abolishing copyright entirely, I would pick the latter at this point.
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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2015, 12:34:48 PM »

Plagiarism laws are awful, but since this is Blurred Lines I don't give a sh*t.
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« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2015, 12:38:55 PM »

But the real question is: what is the fate of this song?
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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2015, 01:01:41 PM »

Plagiarism laws are awful, but since this is Blurred Lines I don't give a sh*t.
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« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2015, 01:09:48 PM »

Plagiarism laws are awful, but since this is Blurred Lines I don't give a sh*t.

This is problematic. If this becomes precedent, they could come after songs you like.
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« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2015, 01:23:07 PM »

Incorrect, but good.
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« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2015, 12:30:37 AM »

Hopefully Marvin Gaye family will lost every penny they have on this lawsuit. They are moochers, wanting to steal money from working people.
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2015, 01:43:28 PM »

That's good, someone got their money taken for making a song about rape mainstream.

(Then again, I don't know of any other mainstream songs about rape)
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« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2015, 01:47:44 PM »

That's good, someone got their money taken for making a song about rape mainstream.

(Then again, I don't know of any other mainstream songs about rape)

Because, according if we took the logic that most people use to describe "Blurred Lines" as a rape song would mean describing just about EVERY mainstream dance song is about rape.

And this wasn't a lawsuit about that. Jesus, get your contacts on.
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2015, 02:32:43 PM »

Isn't there literally a recent Maroon 5 song that includes the line "Hunt you down, eat you alive"?
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