Rolling Stone: Robin Thicke noticeably ripped off Marvin Gaye's 1977 hit "Got to Give It Up" when he wrote the smash hit "Blurred Lines" with Pharrell Williams and T.I., a Los Angeles jury has decided. He and co-songwriter Pharrell Williams must pay Gaye's family $7.3 million as part of the ruling, according to Variety. The verdict puts to rest over a year's worth of legal back and forth between Thicke and Gaye's estate, in which the latter sought $25 million in damages.
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Who can say what is original and what is adaptive for other works? It doesn't seem like it's possible anymore. There is so much that our world is exposed to because of the internet and social network we have. Pictures and historical evidence is available almost everywhere. And websites like Tumblr and Pintrest seem to help artist get concepts for their designs. And it's very likely that they may create a design that looks similar to something already made. And in this day and age, music has changed into this dubstep, hard bass music with a mix of retro and new wave music. So I could believe Blurred Lines being a original piece that was inspired by artists such as Marvin Gaye. So I don't see the problem. I mean of all "creative" adaptions people should be worried about should be about Disney and how they aren't original with their ideas anymore. Everything is bought out to Disney so they can take credit for something that's not theirs, but they don't get in trouble for it. And I doubt these artists were trying to recreate a well known song from the 1970s. However, if these artists had a songwriter that wrote the song, maybe he was doing it on purpose. At this point it doesn't matter because they were already sewed.
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