Nope, which is why this ruling is dumb as hell. And in the world of sampling, if they wanted to do "Got to Give It Up", why not just sample the actual song itself? This is going to open the door for every single song- past or present, still under copyright- to wage suit against any other song that came after it that even
remotely sounds like it. Rip off is what Ray Parker Jr did to Huey Lewis. "Ghostbusters" is what it sounds like when you steal from "I Want a New Drug". That is not at all what happened with "Blurred Lines". Maybe the folks behind "Monster Mash" should sue HDH for ripping off the exact cling of the chains in the beginning of "Monster Mash" for the chain clinks in "Nowhere to Run". I think they'd have a case.
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