Appeal Filed Inwards 'Blurred Lines' Case

It comes equally no surpise that Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke too TI bring fied their appeal against the verdict inwards the 'Blurred Lines' representative that saw them ordered to pay $5.3m (reduced from $7.3 million) too pay over 50% of songwriting too publishing revenues to the household unit of measurement of Marvin Gaye, after a jury ruled concluding yr that their vocal copied Gaye’s 1977 striking 'Got to Give It Up'. Lawyers for the trio filed their opening brief amongst the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on 24th August, controversy that “if left to stand, the Blurred Lines verdict would chill musical inventiveness too inhibit the procedure yesteryear which after artists depict inspiration from before artists to exercise novel pop music” too at the pump of their appeal is the declaration that the Judge too indeed the jury shoud bring merely considered the canvas music – the “deposit copy” filed amongst the the U.S.A. copyright purpose - too non been influenced yesteryear the actual reciordings of either song. The "Blurred Lines" writers assert that when the courtroom examined the 2 songs before the trial,  Judge John A. Kronstadt shoud bring ruled that the representative was non worthy of trial.

The brief states: “What happened instead was a cascade of legal errors warranting this court’s reversal or vacatur for novel lawsuit .... At summary judgment, the district courtroom entertained adept testimony yesteryear musicologists for the Gayes who based their opinions solely on the audio recording, non the deposit copy. The courtroom correctly filtered out non-deposit re-create too generic musical features from their testimony, but therefore erroneously failed to compare what remained to Blurred Lines .... At trial, the district courtroom made things worse. While correctly excluding the Got to Give It Up audio recording itself, the courtroom erroneously allowed the Gayes’ experts to bear witness almost the audio recording anyway, including yesteryear playing their ain musical excerpts based on the audio recording. The courtroom therefore instructed the jury that it could regard all this testimony inwards its substantial-similarity analysis.”

This author was http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/9/9877706/robin-thicke-pharrell-blurred-lines-marvin-gaye-appeal

expecting an appeal well before the recent decison inwards the 'Stairway to Heaven Case' where Led Zeppling where found not to bring plagiarised a vocal 'Taurus' yesteryear Spirit - a determination must bring boosted the appellant's confidence.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pharrell-robin-thicke-ti-appeal-blurred-lines-verdict-w436116

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/9/9877706/robin-thicke-pharrell-blurred-lines-marvin-gaye-appeal

https://everythingarticlesaddict.blogspot.com//search?q=9/9877706/robin-thicke-pharrell-blurred-lines-marvin-gaye-appeal">http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/9/9877706/robin-thicke-pharrell-blurred-lines-marvin-gaye-appeal


https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/we-talked-to-a-lawyer-about-how-the-blurred-lines-verdict-will-impact-copyright-law-in-dance-music