The document discusses three cases of copyright infringement in the music industry. The first case discusses how Marvin Gaye's family was awarded $7.3 million after a jury ruled that "Blurred Lines" copied parts of Marvin Gaye's 1977 song "Got to Give It Up". The second case discusses how The Beach Boys song "Surfin' U.S.A." was found to have plagiarized Chuck Berry's song, but the issues were later resolved by signing over writing credits and royalties to Berry. The third case discusses how the famous DJ Avicii made millions from tracks produced using pirated software, though he later obtained legal software after being found out.

1. By Emmanuel Nwadiashi
2-3 Infringement Number One: Marvin Gaye And robin Thicke
4-5 Infringement Number Two: The beach boys and chuck berry
6-7 Infringement Number Three: Illegal Software Downloading By Avicii
COPYRIGHT IN MUSIC
MORE MUSIC PLZ

2. Marvin Gay
On Mar. 10, 2015, a jury ruled that singers Pharrell Williams
and Robin Thicke copied parts of Marvin Gaye's hit from 1977
song "Got to Give It Up" to create "Blurred Lines," and
it awarded $7.3 million dollars to Marvin Gaye's family.
His Daughter

3. Do these songs sound alike to you?
Yes, no, maybe ?
Only a minute video!

4. The beach boys vs chuck berry
"Surfing' U.S.A." plagiarized
Berry's song. It was created
as an homage to one of the
early rock heroes, Chuck
Berry.
The only problem with that
fact was that they made
money off the song.
Writing credit and publishing royalties were later signed over to Berry’s
management as the copyright infringement issues took care of itself.

5. Do these songs sound alike to you?
Yes, no, maybe ?Only a minute video!

6. Tim Bergling, aka Avicii, has become one of the world’s
best known DJs, scoring hits after hits in recent years.
With a net worth estimated at $60 million. The Sweden
has plenty of cash to splash. Enough to buy an expensive
Hollywood Hills mansion, if he wanted to.
Interestingly, however, some of the tracks he made his
millions with were produced with the help of pirated
software.

7. • What has been done about this you ask
?
• After being found out, Avicii has been
rumored to have obtained legal
software to do his producing. No one
has bothered to take any measures
because sadly it has become common
among top DJ’s to still use pirated
software.

8. WORK CITED
https://torrentfreak.com/avicii-and-other-djs-produce-hits-using-pirated-software-150223/
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/robin-thicke-and-pharrell-lose-blurred-lines-lawsuit-
20150310
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-brian-wilson-talks-blurred-lines-
chuck-berry-and-surfin-usa-20150312-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihs-vT9T3Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le51jB37Fro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfntpNM1-dM