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Blurred Legal Lines

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ben Sisario, Jon Caramanica and Ben Ratliff discuss the “Blurred Lines” copyright trial.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the New York Times pop cast, your naked banjoist of music news.

0:05.6

Okay, now he was close, who's tried to domestic nature.

0:09.7

And possible plagiarism.

0:12.3

I'm your host Ben Ratmouth.

0:14.0

Let me liberate you.

0:16.0

You don't need no papers.

0:18.0

The man is not Jamaica.

0:20.0

And that's postmodern.

0:23.0

I know you wanted.

0:26.0

I know you wanted.

0:28.0

I know you wanted.

0:32.0

For a good girl. And that's postmodern jukebox with their version of blurred lines.

0:38.0

I bet you're wondering... I bet you're wondering why a bluegrass version we'll get to that this was the

0:46.9

week of blurred lines and the new story about the song blurred lines by Robin Thick with Farel and TI being in the news.

0:56.1

The gay family in a court ruling was awarded 7.4 million is that right?

1:02.1

I think, yeah.

1:03.0

Because of what were decided to be a copyright infractions.

1:08.0

Ben Cesario wrote a series of news pieces about the trial and John Caramonica you wrote a critical

1:16.5

take that came out on Wednesday. John your critical take if I understand it right, was an expression of frustration basically

1:27.0

that our copyright system is based on written representation of songs and that you know what we know as popular

1:38.0

music now has so much stuff that cannot be adequately represented in standard notation that holds up in court.

1:45.4

Well I mean obviously you know song writing is protected in the sense of written representation

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