Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" controversies continue. Both Marvin Gaye's family and Bridgeport Music, a company that owns some Funkadelic compositions, have been (independently) hinting at claims that "Blurred Lines" is a ripoff. Specifically, that it copies Gaye's classic "Got to Give It Up" and Funkadelic's "Sexy Ways", respectively. They've threatened to sue.
In order to pre-emptively protect themselves, Thicke, Pharrell and T.I. have filed a suit against both the Gaye family and Bridgeport to set the record straight in a legal context, attempting to officially distinguish between capturing a genre's sound and flat-out copying another artist.
The lawsuit, via the Hollywood Reporter , reads:
Plaintiffs, who have the utmost respect for and admiration of Marvin Gaye, Funkadelic and their musical legacies, reluctantly file this action in the face of multiple adverse claims from alleged successors in interest to those artists. Defendants continue to insist that plaintffs' massively successful composition, "Blurred Lines," copies "their" compositions...
[But] being reminiscent of a "sound" is not copyright infringement. The intent in producing "Blurred Lines" was to evoke an era.
As The Hollywood Reporter points out, George Clinton has Tweeted in support of Thicke and Pharrell. Also, this morning, ?uestlove Tweeted, "for hip hop's sake i am siding with @robinthicke just because a song is derivative that doesn't mean its plagiarized."
Read the entire lawsuit here, and watch the video for "Blurred Lines", if you are not completely sick to death of it yet:
via Carrie Battan
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