A federal jury found that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams lifted "Blurred Lines" from Marvin Gaye
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[QUOTE=Del_sys32;47303664]If it's true the jury never got to see the sheet music, and the decision was based on sound, then there's no reason other mediums should be treated differently (by similarity). [/QUOTE]
No it's the exact opposite. They only got to see the sheet music and musicologists from both sides were brought in to analyze it.
[QUOTE=matt000024;47304325]No it's the exact opposite. They only got to see the sheet music and musicologists from both sides were brought in to analyze it.[/QUOTE]
Thank you. I'll snip some of my post.
[QUOTE=catbarf;47302553]Source?[/QUOTE]
My apologies, I don't know why I think I can make such a controversial claim without substantiating it. I'm at work on my phone at the moment so I'll see if I can find the article when I get on my desktop back home. Feel free to consider my claim to be BS in the meantime.
[QUOTE=matt000024;47304325]No it's the exact opposite. They only got to see the sheet music and musicologists from both sides were brought in to analyze it.[/QUOTE]
Uh, I hope those people were able to read sheet music in the first place...
This shit has been fucked up for a while. You can get sued for deriving even a small part of a song from another.
[QUOTE]On July 24, 2008, Abkco Music Inc. filed a lawsuit against Lil Wayne for copyright infringement and unfair competition, specifically referring to the track "Playing with Fire".[33] In the lawsuit, Abkco claims that the song was obviously derived from The Rolling Stones' "Play with Fire", to which Abkco owns the rights.[33][34] Subsequently, "Playing with Fire" was removed from the tracklist of Tha Carter III on all online music stores and replaced with the David Banner produced track, "Pussy Monster".[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;_QlBTOAqHhk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QlBTOAqHhk[/video]
[video=youtube;ScB2J0gt9LE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScB2J0gt9LE[/video]
Because it was "derived". Not ripped word for word or note for note. Obviously two different songs. All for one small little part where the lyrics were based off of the other song. Forced to remove a badass song and replace it with a crappy one.
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;47304253]What the fuck? I'm sorry but I hear no similarities between the two songs except for a similar beat.[/QUOTE]
Even the beat isn't exactly the same, if you listen closely.
This is some grade-A bullshit.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;47302196]Any sympathy I could have had for this lawsuit was totally lost when I read this quote:
What the fuck[/QUOTE]
Playing the victim can be pretty profitable
I was willing to let this one go, as there is already enough 'stealing' and under-handed trading of music and the industry itself.
But when I happened to catch the News segment on it and saw Gaye's daughters sobbing uncontrollably on National Television, the whole thing lost any credibility.
So pretty much, Thicke and Williams took a similar melody from an old song that only older generations may actively listen to anymore. The old artists' family, who have a good lawyer and good money from their father, decided the sound-alike was too canny and figured they could run off with some of that new money.
Fucking disgraceful to their father's image, if you ask me.
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