Robin Thicke Burn In HELL
staxwax
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And Pharrel showing his ass for being a complete hypocrite 'its just an homage' no motherfucker you let that ponce thicke badger you into another straight MG rip off - repeat offender too
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Marvin Gaye’s daughter, Nona Gaye, added: "Right now, I feel free. Free from … Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s chains and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told."
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Settling would have been a lot cheaper.
Many, many hit songs pay out both legit and bogus claims.
Among the trial highlights was the revelation that even though his name appears on the writer credits, he did not help write the song. He says he put it there because of ego. More like because of $$$$$$$$. PW says he doesn't care, stars put their names on his songs all the time.
Thicke also played a medley of pop hits, in court, from the likes of; the Beatles, U2, and Bob Marley. No youtube.
Although that youtube link is from 2009, so whats going on there?
Is this something that came about before blurred lines and is only being picked up now that he's (more) famous?
Is this true of all old threads?
Tremendous legal analysis from the Hamilton Burger of Soulstrut.
Yes it's real.
This one too
The execrable thicke wasn't just a spoilt fuck who was handed a music career by a rich daddy in the industry, talmbout wealth/white privilege,
Daddy Gave Me My Career
he repeatedly bit-copied the holiest of the holy and then had the gall to turn around and deny it in this case.
Not only to deny, but to smugly appropriate and preemptively sue the Gaye estate is spitting in the face of the Marvin Gaye legacy, and a flagrant offence to lovers of all things good and true everywhere.
Its got 1987 private press eccentric smooth jazz LP written all over it.
I'm guessing that list is pretty huge...
Oh that's a rip-off allright. No denying. This wasn't acknowledged in the credits?
you all got into old soul records because of rap music right?
the guys that sampled lots of old soul records, without clearing most of them, because this shit is an art. right?
ok
These songs don't even have the same melody or chord progression, which are the accepted benchmarks for copyright claims.
The same groove? Since when is that a crime? Well, get ready for 10,000+ lawsuits on that basis wherein 95% of the songs people here ride for get taken off the market.
Basically all art ever.
Exactly.
Is Bruno Mars shitting in his loafers right now?
the whispers bout to get papered up
All hit songs get sued.
Thicke case is a different ball game.
Imo teens rapping over a loop or samples in the pioneer years 80s / 90s is not the same as setting a precedent as a million dollar pop singer to repeatedly jack or outright 'cover' another singer in the 2000/10's passing it off as his own creation and then preemptively sueing instead of just sampling or recreating, acknowledging and paying publishing rights and moving on.
Erick Sermon's 'Music' or Oddisee 'aint that peculiar' being examples of how incorporating Marvin should be played in this era.
This x100000000000 (and also what Johnny said). This is a horrible precedent for music and really makes no sense (no matter how much you can't stand Thicke). This shouldn't be about him.
except this is about copyright, not creativity. I love Oddisee, but no way he cleared that.
EDIT: on the discogs page for the Oddisee release it says "This release had legally been offered as a free available download in the world-wide-web." Not sure what that means, but free doesn't mean legal.
if you are "for da kulcha, yo" then there is no way this is a good decision for you. no matter how you feel about Thicke, Pharrell, or the song in question.
Most of the time they do a good job of weighing the evidence given and following the judges instructions.
If they got it as wrong as people think, there will be no trouble over turning the verdict on appeal.
One member is going around saying they are Free at last from the oppression of Thicke and Williams.
Millionaires just don't get it.