The high-profile copyright infringement trial featuring Robin Thicke's 2013 international hit single "Blurred Lines" raised significant issues regarding the borderline between musical influence and straightforward copying of a commercially successful composition. Thicke and his collaborators--co-writer and producer Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I.--allegedly infringed on Marvin Gaye's 1977 chart-topping single "Got to Give It Up (Pt.1)." Immediately after the release of "Blurred Lines" in March 2013, numerous print and online observers highlighted significant similarities with Marvin Gaye's song that were also recognized by the legendary singer's family. Due to the unusual circumstance of the alleged infringers initiating pre-emptive legal action later that year by suing the party whose property was affected, Thicke and his associates are effectively the plaintiffs in this case while the Gaye family members are the defendants. Critics of the Gaye family's contention argued that any verdict against Thicke and his associates (also referred to as the Thicke Parties) would unduly limit musical creativity by restricting the scope of composition to exclude similarities to pre-existing copyrighted works. Conversely, the Gaye family contended that any failure by the court to recognize the sanctity of their intellectual property would open the floodgates to irresponsible and unauthorized misuse of copyrighted works. Victory in the case by Marvin Gaye's estate has established a new threshold of copyright infringement liability in popular music, demonstrated in cases emerging since the "Blurred Lines" verdict. How does this legal decision ultimately affect the compositional freedom of active songwriters and producers, and how does it protect the intellectual property of song authors whose work has already reached wide audiences?

Digital technology has profoundly transformed almost all aspects of musical culture. This book explains how and why.

Drawing on interdisciplinary research methods from musicological and legal scholarship, this book maps the historical terrain of forensic musicology. It examines the contributions of musical expert witnesses, their analytical techniques, and the issues they encounter assisting courts in clarifying the blurred lines of music copyright.

"This is an in-depth study of arrangers in pop, analyzing their techniques and revealing their significant contribution to popular music"--Page 4 of cover.

A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Few places in America have felt the influence of #MeToo more intensely. Indeed, college campuses were in many ways the harbingers of #MeToo. Grigoriadis captures the nature of this cultural reckoning without shying away from its complexity. College women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many “woke” male students are more open to feminism than ever, while others perpetuate the cruelest misogyny. Coexisting uneasily, these students are nevertheless rewriting long-standing rules of sex and power from scratch. Eschewing any political agenda, Grigoriadis travels to schools large and small, embedding in their social whirl and talking candidly with dozens of students, as well as to administrators, parents, and researchers. Blurred Lines is a riveting, indispensable illumination of the most crucial social change on campus in a generation.

"A tale of law and music that leads through the gates of time!"

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the author steps beyond the reach of any 'Pygmalion' and becomes a more dangerous kind of beautiful. She becomes a kind of god in her own right: an artist." —Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book Review A "MOST ANTICIPATED" AND "BEST OF FALL 2021" BOOK FOR * VOGUE * TIME * ESQUIRE * PEOPLE * USA TODAY * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * LOS ANGELES TIMES * SHONDALAND * ALMA * THRILLEST * NYLON * FORTUNE A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women is the subject of this book. My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski’s life while investigating the culture’s fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women’s sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the gray area between consent and abuse. Nuanced, fierce, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a writer brimming with courage and intelligence.