Cory Doctorow is usually pretty reasonable. But I cannot agree with his opinion about the “Blurred Lines” decision. I am fairly knowledgeable about music and having heard both Blurred Lines and the song from Marvin Gaye side-by-side it is very clear to me that there are several elements of Blurred Lines that are close to being exact copies of Gayes original ideas. It’s sad that in today’s state of mind copying someone else’s original idea is seen as ethically ambivalent.
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