Plagiarism or inspiration? The biggest music rip-offs
Most of these cases were handed over to the courts and resolutions were reached.
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Music industry giants battling in the courts over authorship, co-authorship, plagiarism and 'inspiration', is nothing new. If you want to compose a totally new and original song, you need a lot of creativity, and we mean a lot.
This is why it's very common for songwriters to listen to old tunes, remix classics and, of course, draw inspiration from their music icons. Problems occur when the legal line is crossed and 'inspiration' becomes plagiarism. Recently, musicians such as Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke were fined and had to pay author's rights for plagiarizing the 1977 Marvin Gaye's song 'Got To Give It Up'.
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