Jurors Hit Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams With $7.4 Million In "Blurred Lines" Verdict

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  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    Meanwhile, I was wrong that the Beastie Boys sought all of their clearances. We were also wrong thinking no one ever sued them. Trouble Funk tried, but didn't get far because of "standing" : http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/26/beastie-boys-win-yet-another-court-case?CMP=share_btn_tw
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    To be clear in above, Beasties didn't win a judgement that they didn't steal the sample; they successfully prevented the company representing Trouble Funk from being recognized as having the right to sue.
  • moses-i
    moses-i Posts: 139
    edited March 2015
    I think you are taking my point of pre-emptive too literally but whatever-guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I am just saying that in my opinion the arguments made by many people that Thicke and Co got what they deserved because they had the "nerve" to sue the Gayes are somewhat unjustified and ignorant. Moreover, I would like to point out that even George Clinton said that he didn't think that Blurred Lines ripped off his work. I really wonder what Marvin Gaye would have made of it all. And again...here is some proof that the Gayes are not exactly the "victims" everyone seems to think they are. In many ways this reminds me of how staunchly the Marleys "protect" their father's legacy/work which resulted in some real nasty legal battles with Aston Barrett.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3008499/Marvin-Gaye-s-family-ugly-feud-7-4m-Blurred-Lines-payout-widow-accuses-penniless-sisters-picking-bones-say-hated-like-this.html

    Food for thought.
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  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    Sooo there's a reason there wasn't a ton of people saying "Blurred Lines rips off Funkadelic" when it first came out. I don't know anyone who says Funkadelic was the first band and that song "Sexy Way" (I think that's the title) was the base for Blurred Lines. There IS a reason everyone and their cousin immediately started talking about "Got to Give It Up" though.

    Fine, agree to disagree. But hopefully next time... folks will just go ahead and get the rights. That IS the legal way to do it.

    As for Gaye's family, maybe you don't know much about his history, but his father was very abusive and Gaye tragically died by his own father's hand. If you don't think there's going to be drama in a family like that, you are living under a rock. But actually still really not getting your point: just because the sisters and ex wife are feuding, anyone and everyone should be able to steal Gaye's music? No one except the family ("no one" includes you, me, and the Daily Mail, by the way) knows what the beef between them is really about, but thank goodness people's legal rights don't (usually) just depend on whether they're fighting with family or not.

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