ray winstone 11:53 Wed Mar 11
Plagiarism
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A jury awarded Marvin Gaye's children $7.4million on Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father's music to create Blurred Lines, the biggest hit song of 2013.
Marvin Gaye's daughter Nona Gaye wept as the verdict was being read and was hugged by her attorney, Richard Busch.
The verdict could tarnish the legacy of Williams, a reliable hit-maker who has won Grammy Awards and appears on NBC's music competition show The Voice.
It was previously revealed that the song had made a staggering $16million for Pharrell, Thicke, rapper T.I. and the record company, though T.I. and various record and music companies had previously been cleared of copyright infringement charges.
The jury decided that the family should receive $4million in damages and $3.4 million in profits from the song, with Thicke forced to pay $1.7million from his own pocket and Pharrell $1.6million.
'Right now, I feel free,' an emotional Nona said after the verdict.
'Free from ... Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke's chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.'
Free? Fucking hell, free to what, spend that money without any moral restraint whatsoever? It's a funny old world....
Some other famous 'rip offs'...
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/music/songs-that-%28allegedly%29-rip-off-other-songs
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ILOVEPAOLODICANIO
9:28 Thu Mar 12
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All work is plagarism.
What I would do is find some good stuff relevant to the paper and cut and paste paragraphs into my word processor. I would then rewrite it in my own words. Next I'd delete the original text.
Perfectumondo just get to well about the word count.
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Takashi Miike
9:27 Thu Mar 12
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wasn't his annoying cunt of a song 'Happy' mostly a copy of an old soul record? I did like Pharrell/Nerd before he sold out
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cygnet
9:25 Thu Mar 12
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http://www.laweekly.com/music/great-now-blurred-lines-has-ruined-the-entire-music-industry-5427407
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LYALL OUT
12:38 Thu Mar 12
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147man 3:32 Wed Mar 11
Very good.
I always thought Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Funk' had ripped off Michael Jackson's 'Jam'.
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Pancho
12:29 Thu Mar 12
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Keep putting the kiss on the end of everything you fat creepy cunt.
You are rattled.
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Nicey
12:16 Thu Mar 12
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I love how you think you know something about me. Keep it up x
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Pancho
12:14 Thu Mar 12
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You prefer a bit of Billy Joel "We Didn't Start The Fire" don't you Nicey...
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the coming of gary
12:02 Thu Mar 12
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the Dutch national anthem starts off like ' o little town of Bethlehem ' . and the star spangled banner has a bit that sounds like ' we wish you a merry Christmas '
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Nicey
11:57 Thu Mar 12
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A song glorifying abusing women ends up losing in court to the Gayes - there is some poetic justice there
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Monk~koknee
4:13 Thu Mar 12
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You can just see a new industry of ambulance chasing plagiarism lawyers searching through music catalogues and offering a no win no fee service for families of dead musicians.
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The Joker
3:44 Thu Mar 12
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The Beatles' Tax man and The Jam's Start main riffs are virtually identical. Just saying, like.
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cosmo smallpiece
3:29 Thu Mar 12
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This is weird. How come no one has picked up on Thinking Out Loud being a rip off of Let's Get It On. Far more so than Sam Smith and Tom Petty.
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stomper
12:16 Thu Mar 12
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This Small Faces song might remind some Led Zep fans of something or other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp0jZ4BGuDw
especially around 3:30
Watch the images scroll past and ask if anyone can Plagiarize an entire life, because I think that Mr Weller owes Mr Marriot some royalties too.
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stomper
12:06 Thu Mar 12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4vWJbwmqM
Plagiarism
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:03 Thu Mar 12
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Steve Winwood should be suing Paul Weller for his entire solo output.
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mike hunt
8:09 Wed Mar 11
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everything is ripped off from somewhere, thats a fact
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Billy Blagg
8:04 Wed Mar 11
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Don't shade your eyes - plagiarise!
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Russ of the BML
6:13 Wed Mar 11
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Lily Hammer 4:28 Wed Mar 11
Right. All just seems a bit odd to me. As you say massive precedent set here.
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Swiss.
5:10 Wed Mar 11
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I awalys thought Spiller and Mojo Hear Me Tonight are a bit samey. Greta tracks though
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147man
5:03 Wed Mar 11
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* Blushes *
I didn't know you cared
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JohnnyL
5:02 Wed Mar 11
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147 .. He's So Fine
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