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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Stoney Mason on March 10, 2015, 06:27:56 PM

Title: Got to Give it Up>Blurred Lines
Post by: Stoney Mason on March 10, 2015, 06:27:56 PM

http://variety.com/2015/music/news/blurred-lines-verdict-pharrell-robin-thicke-ordered-to-pay-7-3-million-to-marvin-gaye-family-1201450117/

Title: Re: Got to Give Up>Blurred Lines
Post by: Steve Contra on March 10, 2015, 06:31:34 PM

Most obvious greater than sign since 2>1

Title: Re: Got to Give it Up>Blurred Lines
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2015, 06:44:24 PM

Just doesn't make sense to me. How the fuck didn't they cover their bases on this, given how royalties and publishing work. Tina Turner's songwriters get a small % of sales money every time someone buys Machine Gun Funk, solely because Biggie said "what's love got to do with it." If Bad Boy couldn't get away with that, how the hell could they think this would fly.

If they had cited it as an interpolation no one would say shit, the Gaye family would get paid less over a period of time etc.

Title: Re: Got to Give it Up>Blurred Lines
Post by: brob on March 10, 2015, 07:18:15 PM

When are people gonna come for electronic dance music though?

I will drown in popcorn if the amen break ever goes to court like this

Title: Re: Got to Give it Up>Blurred Lines
Post by: Trent Dole on March 10, 2015, 09:41:28 PM

Think it's been to long since it was first appropriated without credit given for the amen break to get any lawsuits going? There's a docu on the whole thing on youtube.

Title: Re: Got to Give it Up>Blurred Lines
Post by: Brehvolution on March 11, 2015, 04:24:57 PM

BL video >* not for artistic reasons, but for casting choices. :noah

Title: Re: Got to Give it Up>Blurred Lines
Post by: chronovore on March 13, 2015, 05:43:11 AM

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 10, 2015, 06:27:56 PM

http://variety.com/2015/music/news/blurred-lines-verdict-pharrell-robin-thicke-ordered-to-pay-7-3-million-to-marvin-gaye-family-1201450117/

I’m not familiar with either song, other than having to listened to both of them for the first time just now, so I’m going in with Kosma-like levels of ignorance (sorry, bro! :-* ). They’re similar, sure. But are the chord progressions identical, or just similar? There are no audio samples included in this, from what I’ve read, and the testified intention was to make a Gaye-like song, but the actual aural proximity was unconscious.

Pretty much anyone who has a horse in the “copyfight” race is convinced that this is a bad, dangerous and dumb decision. Hopefully it is appealed.