HAHAH, did you hear the daughter's comments after the verdict? *all while crying, mind you* "I feel free...free from Thicke's chains." w. t. f.
And there may be infinitely many ways to arrange a song, but unless a song is one of those "wow, I've never heard anything that sounds like that before" songs*, it's gonna be in the ballpark of another song. This is a really terrible precedent, and I hope Thicke appeals. *It's really cool when you hear a totally unique song -- bombs over baghdad in 2001 comes to mind....I'd never heard anything that sounded like that...my mind was blown -- but it's a ridiculously high bar, is not articulable as a standard, and even if it were, would be a ridiculous way to think about copyright.
whhaaaaa "the jury was not presented with the two recordings in question to determine the extent to which they’re similar. "
Looks like there will be an appeal. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...-lines-copyright-verdict-should-be-thrown-out http://www.mtv.com/news/2103352/robin-thicke-appeal-blurred-lines-verdict/
For the record, I don't think they're even that similar. No more similar than two songs that come out in the same year can be.
It is a completely ludicrous lawsuit. I imagine Gaye's daughter is simply trying to milk her poor dead daddy for every plug nickel she can get. The copyright laws in the USA are too strong anyway. It takes forever (and seems to constantly get pushed out, ad infinitum) for anything to go into the public domain.
Completely disagree with this decision. Melody is the real intellectual property not a sound, vibe, etc. Sam Smith, on the other hand, owes Tom Petty almost every cent he's ever made.
Wow. "Theirs goes ding ding ding digga ding ding. Mine goes ding ding ding digga ding ding, tch. They're not the same. That tch makes them different." -Rob Van Winkle
eh, the first 2 lines of that melodic idea are the same, but the rest aren't. it's a different song. there's only so many ways you can put notes together. this just gets into a lot of murky ground
That is thing: how many ways can you put a limited of notes together that is pleasing to the ear? It isn't infinite for sure, and the "pleasing" part limits things quite a bit.
It has to be infinite. If it isn't infinite, then there will be a point when there will be no more songs to write. Which is silly.