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Leo, Katherine M.

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Blurred Lines: Musical Expertise in the History of American Copyright Litigation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Blurred Lines: Musical Expertise in the History of American Copyright Litigation./
Author:	Leo, Katherine M.
Description:	295 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-04A(E).
Subject:	Intellectual property. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10294647
ISBN:	9781369370522

Blurred Lines: Musical Expertise in the History of American Copyright Litigation.
Leo, Katherine M.

Blurred Lines: Musical Expertise in the History of American Copyright Litigation. - 295 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2016.

In March 2015, a jury awarded Marvin Gayes estate nearly $7.4 million, finding that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams infringed on Gaye's 1977 song, "Got to Give It Up," with their own 2013 hit, "Blurred Lines." The highly publicized federal copyright lawsuit has raised concerns about the ramifications of this outcome for the legal protection of music and the future of artistic creativity. The question underlying this case, as in much of federal copyright litigation, involves negotiating the putative similarities and differences between expressive works. Although the court system has developed methods designed to assist triers of fact in such legal analysis, the unpredictable outcomes of these cases illuminate the problematics of this task. Triers of fact may hear testimony from expert witnesses, whose specialized knowledge, skill, and experience is intended to inform the decision-making process. The results of such testimony, however, are not only insistently variable, but they also reflect unsettled debates over how, and by whom, musical identity can best be defined. Given this situation, how should we understand the historical and contemporary role of the musical expert witness in American music copyright litigation?

ISBN: 9781369370522Subjects--Topical Terms:

572975
Intellectual property.

Blurred Lines: Musical Expertise in the History of American Copyright Litigation.
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