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What happens when Thomas preps a music law episode but Andrew also preps a music law episode? You get basically 2 episodes in 1! Given that we just moved to our more frequent schedule, we definitely did not intend to create such a behemoth, but there was just too much to cover!
In the first half, Andrew sketches out the legal landscape in music copyright law and it's pretty severe limitations. We analyze the Blurred Lines/Got To Give It Up lawsuit, and the Sam Smith/Tom Petty case, complete with clips! Then in the second half, we FINALLY get to the actual case at hand, which is Grigson v Lopez. Thomas takes Andrew on a bit of a musical tour discussing different elements of the songs with even more clips!

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Anonymous

Just like there are special guests for areas of the law, I would really love if you invited Pat Finnerty on for one of the music law podcasts. He definitely is politically aligned and could really help bring the musical chops.

Anonymous

finally listened. stopping by to note that lopez and andersen-lopez likely do all of their composing with cameras running for exactly this reason. remember the tort is actual copying. all of the similarity and comparison nonsense is to *infer* copying. but if you have proof of original creation, then all of that other stuff is moot. this case will be tossed out because there will be documentary evidence of them writing the song.