'Blurred Lines' Jury Orders Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to Pay $7.4 million

[BDR]

Re: 'Blurred Lines' Jury Orders Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to Pay $7.4 millio

Wasn't nobody tripping off of Sam Smith Stealing from Tom Petty though huh? Petty deserves it off of "feel" right?

That's the name of the game tho mofos sit there and see you stole their song and didn't pay them for clearance. They wait until the song blow up and bammm pay up ninja lmaooo

That's what Marvin Gaye fam did, wait in the cut and let mofos think shit sweet. That blurred lines song made over $20 mill alone, Marvin Gaye fam just got awarded 7 mill... Now if the Gaye fam get future royalties of that blurred lines song man listen

The funniest part to me was how quick that CAC was to absolve himself of having any creative input whatsoever. He threw Pharrell's New Black ass under a whole fleet of buses trying to beat this.

You noticed that too right? Cac reverted right back to their cac ways instead of owning up to their thievery..

Funny when this lawsuit first came about cac Thicke said the song does not sound like Marvin Gayes song yet in interviews this cac referencing Marvin Gaye got to give it up as inspiration lmaooo

He thought that cac privilege was going to save him

 

[Upgrade Dave]

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Common folk ain't caring about music theory or creative license or any other techno music babble.

They just apply the ear test.

The ear test had that song guilty from the get-go.

That's exactly what happened and why they got it wrong.
This is why people go to court and want juries. It was a good gamble for the Gaye family. You don't necessarily need to win on merit with a jury.

So wait, dudes up here actually thought they weren't going to have to pay up and that he didn't copy the song

Yep and count me as one.

 

[XXXplosive]

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I wouldn't celebrate just yet.
It's likely they will appeal the decision.
The family will be lucky to get even half that amount in the end, if anything.

 

[N*E*R*D]

Re: 'Blurred Lines' Jury Orders Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to Pay $7.4 millio

Im sure they'll appeal

 

[SPECTRE1]

Re: 'Blurred Lines' Jury Orders Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to Pay $7.4 millio

I am sick of studios like Sony, Time Warner, and Universal. stealing my ideas and putting them in their movies and making billions.


If they were smart, they would have approached the family before the song became a hit and could have paid them alot less. Greed and thinking they could get away with it made them lose out.

How would they like like somebody taking their music and making millions off of it.

 

[da_monumental_1]

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Here's an interesting fact, the jury found them guilty based off of sheet music for both of the songs, not the audio recording so it wasn't just an "ear test" for the jury

So, everyone who thinks the ruling is wrong is going to ignore this post?

"Open and shut case, Johnson." - Dave Chappelle

 

[Gemini]

Re: 'Blurred Lines' Jury Orders Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to Pay $7.4 millio

Pharrell Williams: $7.3 million Blurred Lines verdict threatens all artists

'You can’t own feelings and you can’t own emotion.'
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Pharrell Williams has warned that the verdict in the $7.3 million "Blurred Lines" copyright case threatens the work of all musicians, designers, and artists. Williams said that subsequent copycat legislation could ruin the creative industry, as the ruling against himself and co-writer Robin Thicke appears to set a legal precedent. A federal court in Los Angeles found that "Blurred Lines" had copied not the melody or chords of Marvin Gaye's song "Got to Give It Up," but the 1977 hit's sound and feel.

"The verdict handicaps any creator out there who is making something that might be inspired by something else," Williams told the Financial Times in his first interview since the verdict. "This applies to fashion, music, design ... anything. If we lose our freedom to be inspired we’re going to look up one day and the entertainment industry as we know it will be frozen in litigation. This is about protecting the intellectual rights of people who have ideas."

Since "Blurred Lines" was released in the summer of 2013 the song has made nearly $17 million in profit. After the verdict, the Gaye family filed an injunction in an attempt to prevent its sale and distribution. An open letter from the family also accused Williams and Thicke of "deliberately undertaking" to infringe copyright, adding that while the pair "certainly have a right to be inspired by "Got to Give It Up" ... they did not have the right to use it without permission as a blueprint."

Pharrell, in his interview with the FT, denied that there had been any infringement at all. "You can’t own feelings and you can’t own emotions," he said. Producer Harvey Weinstein added that if it was legal to sue over creative work that "feels" like another, then artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein would never have existed. Williams himself did not comment on whether he or Thicke would be appealing the verdict, but said that: "Everything that’s around you in a room was inspired by something or someone ... If you kill that, there’s no creativity."

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/20/8262343/blurred-lines-copyright-verdict-williams-creativity