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Apr. 22, 2015

Should I [settle] or should I go [to trial]?

Commentators have pounced on the recent jury verdict in the "Blurred Lines" trial to suggest it will cause a chilling effect among musicians. Are they right? By Carlos A. Singer


By Carlos A. Singer


Commentators have pounced on the recent jury verdict in the "Blurred Lines" trial to suggest it will cause a chilling effect among musicians. They may well be right, but things were rather chilly for music litigators even before the jury punished Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke by awarding Marvin Gaye's children over $7 million in damages for appropriating elements of the Gaye hit, "Got to Give it Up." We know this b...

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