Essays About Blurred Lines

Blurry

by Joanna Demers JusticeLos Angeles County Courthouse The Williams v. Bridgeport [i.e., Bridgeport Music, Inc.]  decision, which orders “Blurred Lines”-co-writers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay $7.4 million in damages to Marvin Gaye’s three children for copyright… Read More

Blurred Lines, Ur-Lines, and Color Lines

by Robert Fink Nothing puts musicology in the headlines like a big, juicy verdict in a musical copyright case. And they don’t come much juicier than the 7.4 million dollar judgment handed down last week by a federal jury which, enabled by extensive musicological expert testimony, decided that Robin Thicke… Read More

LA-land

OK, we confess to finding the following, from this morning’s LA Times, to be the most perplexing (“confusing,” the students would say) passage about musicology we remember reading: Because laws when Gaye wrote the song allowed only the sheet… Read More