Week 3: Connection 3

This weeks electoral on copyright was so relevant for the week. As probably everyone knows, Robin Thicke and Pharrell were S-U-E-D for the illegal use of copyright in their misogynistic hit song ‘Blurred Lines’. They were sued for $7.4 million dollars which I personally don’t think is enough seeing as such a terrible song grossed $14.8 million dollars, but we can’t win it all.

This is a terrible song that really just shows that equality of the sexes is still a massive problem in a society that has supposedly moved beyond the objectification of women. What makes it even more terrible is that it plagiarised an old and much loved song. The ‘artists’ of this song claim it to only be ‘derivative’ of the Marvin Gaye classic. Well, whether or not that is true – I really don’t want to go and compare the songs for myself – I think Thicke and Williams deserved what they got.

I leave you with this beautiful parody of the song by the Aukland Law Revue:

 

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