All I can say is that if this race baiting keeps happening, it's not going to end well for that certain 13% of the country.
The jury didn’t listen to Marvin Gaye’s recording; they listened to a new recording based on the sheet music for the song that was submitted for the copyright claim.
Here is another example, using country music examples to illustrate how this is troubling...
I don’t know anything about Robin Thicke, but I’ve heard the pieces in question and yes it sounds similar, but I think that could be said about a lot of songs. The writer of the article goes onto compare it to a case involving sampling. When a hip hop artist samples a song, they are taking a piece of the exact song and putting it in their song. To me, that is wrong and the artist should be paying royalties to the people they sample. It’s like a writer that takes an exact passage of a book and puts it in his story without attribution.
A huge amount of pop hits are based on a 4-chord progression
Copyright was originally for a term under 20 years. (Statute of Anne IIRC) Now Big Media wants to lock up everything in the name of "Intellectual Rights"
Warner/Chappell (One of the biggest of the Big Media Music Rights holders) holds the rights to "Happy Birthday to You" and still tries to charge people for singing the song in a restaurant and the song was first published in 1893.
Our Constitution grants two 14 year terms. But Big Media paid Congress critters to extend that term to now over 70 years and in some cases well over 100 years. It needs to be repealed back to the original and defund these leeches and allow the works to fall in the public domain after the two 14 year terms.
Back about 10-15 years ago I was riding with my daughter listening to the radio. A song started and I said “Great,I love this old America tune.” Come to find out it was a Janet Jackson song/ripoff!
Hmmm. Anything that is bad for ‘pop’ music sounds pretty good to me.
Pop music is so lame, it needed a shakeup.
Pharrell's "Happy" vs Gaye's "Ain't That Peculiar"...?
The modern copyright law is what is bad for music. The song in question should have been in the public domain 10 years ago.
Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams are sleazy karaoke singers.