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Did Robin Thicke steal ‘Blurred Lines’ from Marvin Gaye?

by Joe Bennett | Feb 1, 2014 | fm2, Plagiarism, Research, Songwriting

[edit: update 12 March 2015] The case has now been resolved, and the jury found in the Gayes’ favour, despite the copying not being exact and the musical elements dissimilar, as my original February 2014 post (below) argues. In an interview with...

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