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• Why The “Blurred Lines” Case Could Be Overturned…

  11-03-2015 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wallace Collins is an entertainment and intellectual property lawyer based in New York. He has been in the business for over 30 years. Prior to this he was an...
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• Barbara Hannigan: how I broke into the conducting brotherhood

  11-03-2015 20:45
  
  Who says women can’t be conductors? Well, quite a lot of men. So what has the famous soprano Barbara Hannigan learned since she picked up the baton – and started waving it in a (shock!) sleeveless dress? Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Shuffles: BMI, LyricFind, Interlude Music…

  11-03-2015 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Will Mills has been appointed CRO of LyricFind. Mills was previously VP of Music & Content at Shazam. Mills will work from LyricFind’s new London office. Tracie Verlinde has been promoted from...
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• Alleged shooting at Lil Wayne's Miami home a 'swatting' hoax

  11-03-2015 20:14
  
  Miami Beach police received a call from a person saying that four people had been shot but the department says it could not locate any victims or a gunmanMiami Beach police swarmed the home of rapper Lil Wayne on Wednesday after an apparent hoax call reported that four people had been shot.“Unfortunately this appears to be a ‘swatting’ call,” the department said on Twitter. "Swatting" is a possibility but MBPD does not take chances when responding to these types of calls. Conti
  
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• 22 Songs That Sound More Similar Than Blurred Lines and Got To Give It Up

  11-03-2015 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The jury messed up. The courts failed us. But what do you expect in a trial arguing “feel” and “vibe.” There is no actual “truth”...
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• Missing Top Gear? Here are five songs to capture the essence of Jeremy Clarkson

  11-03-2015 19:17
  
  Can you capture Jeremy Clarkson’s persona in five songs to fill that Top Gear-shaped hole? We think you canI’d best admit it first: I love Top Gear. I don’t like what it stands for, the opinions its presenters express, their casual delight in causing offence, their contempt for anything that doesn’t reflect their smug, moneyed worldview (though I suspect James May might be OK – the occasional programmes in his Toy Stories strand often end up reducing me to tears with their joy in their
  
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• Why Direct Licensing Deals Won’t Benefit Songwriters…

  11-03-2015 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steve Gordon is a top music industry attorney.  In this open letter to Congress, he tries to explain why direct licensing with services like Pandora...
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• Did You Know The Undertaker Battled Kane BEFORE His Brother Was In WWE?

  11-03-2015 18:26
  
  Watch this video for five Undertaker facts that will knock your socks off...
  
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• The playlist: experimental music – Africa Express, Colin Webster, Rutger Zuydervelt, Laurie Spiegel and more

  11-03-2015 18:23
  
  A funky version of Terry Riley’s In C, a rare John Cage/Leonard Bernstein collaboration, an album of cello glissandi, and a project on 1950s telephone operators – consider your mind expanded
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• The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Raymond Scott – At Home With Dorothy and Raymond

  11-03-2015 17:32
  
  Raymond Scott was a composer, engineer, recording studio pioneer, an inventor of electronic instruments whose influence lives on Continue reading...
  
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• Kanye West Wants Everyone To Know How Awesome Wife Kim Kardashian Is!

  11-03-2015 17:29
  
  Yeezy has unveiled a new tune, titled Awesome, which appeared online after Yeezy first previewed the tune back in 2013...
  
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• Kendall Jenner To Follow In Kate Moss’ Footsteps For Calvin Klein?

  11-03-2015 17:22
  
  The teenage dream has signed to Calvin Klein, Page Six reports…
  
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• Meet Combat Jack: how hip-hop's podcast king gets artists to open up

  11-03-2015 17:17
  
  Reggie Ossé, a former managing editor of The Source, has gone on to create hip-hop’s most respected podcast. Ben Westhoff caught up with the ‘first wave’ fan
  We live in a golden age of podcasting. In hip-hop there are many great ones, including Ice-T’s Final Level, Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds’s Juan Epstein, Shawn Setaro’s The Cipher and Jeff Weiss and Nocando’s Shots Fired. (Full disclosure: I’ve been a guest on the latter. Also, I still long for the departed Hypemen, feat
  
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• JME Announces Album Release Via Twitter

  11-03-2015 17:12
  
  Skepta’s little bro returns to the limelight with ‘Integrity’…
  
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• Bahrain detains student, teachers over Koranic recitation to music

  11-03-2015 17:11
  
  Bahrain's public prosecutor has charged a high school student and two teachers with insulting Islam in connection with a video showing the student reciting verses from the Koran to musical accompaniment, state news agency BNA reported on Wednesday. The Ministry of Education investigated the video and found that the school had entered a competition for Koranic recitation, commonly held for children around the Muslim world. Two teachers and the student were subsequently questioned by the public pr
  
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• Could Flo Rida Have Another No.1 This Sunday?

  11-03-2015 17:00
  
  ‘GDFR’ leads this week’s Official Chart Update but how does this week’s Top 10 shape up..?
  
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• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny review – it never gets the tone right

  11-03-2015 16:56
  
  Royal Opera House, London
  A rare UK production of the Weill-Brecht satire updates the action but suffers from musical and dramatic lack of definition Continue reading...
  
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• The Specials: 10 of the best

  11-03-2015 16:49
  
  With their back catalogue getting the deluxe reissue treatment, we journey through the career of the band who combined misanthropy and joy – and ended their career by recording one of music’s greatest freedom anthemsThe itchy, restless energy of ska – reggae’s uptight, joyful ancestor – was a perfect complement to the dynamism of punk, as the Automatics discovered in 1977, when they began plying the mixture at pubs and clubs in their hometown of Coventry. But while the group soon cut a
  
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• Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke to pay $7.4m to Marvin Gaye's family over Blurred Lines

  11-03-2015 16:36
  
  Jury decides Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied 1977 hit Got to Give It Up in lawsuit filed by Gaye’s childrenComment: The Blurred Lines verdict proves only one thing: you can’t second-guess a jury Continue reading...
  
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• Madonna Said What About Her Ex-Hubby Guy Ritchie?!

  11-03-2015 16:04
  
  Queen of Pop admits to feeling “incarcerated” when married to the Sherlock Holmes director! Over to you Madge...
  
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• Jennifer Ward Clarke obituary

  11-03-2015 15:58
  
  Cellist with a mastery of the instrument in its 18th-century form Continue reading...
  
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• Blaming White Racism on Rap Music

  11-03-2015 15:53
  
  At times, people of many races are uncomfortable with the language used in some rap music. Most people are categorically more uncomfortable with a bus full of white fraternity members chanting in favor of segregation and murdering black people because of their race. On Wednesday's segment of Morning Joe, though, the hosts seemed to conflate these two very different kinds of speech. Co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, along with the Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, discussed the con
  
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• If You Want To Dress Like Former Geordie Shore Star Vicky Pattison, This Is Your Lucky Day

  11-03-2015 15:25
  
  Our Vicky’s latest collection for Honeyz.com is dropping this week…
  
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• Got to Give Up the Blurred Lines: which songs sound suspiciously alike? – quiz

  11-03-2015 14:59
  
  On Tuesday Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke were found liable for copyright infringement against Marvin Gaye, in a suit revolving around Gaye's 1977 single Got to Give It Up and Thicke's 2013 hit Blurred Lines. How many of these past sonic similarities you can match yup? Continue reading...
  
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• Ray Charles: 'Genius? That's nothing to be ashamed of' – a classic interview

  11-03-2015 14:53
  
  It’s 60 years since Ray Charles had a hit with I Got a Woman – what the pop world now considers the first soul single. As he arrived for his first UK tour in May 1963, he gave this interview to New Musical Express, brought to you by Rock’s Backpages Continue reading...
  
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• One Direction Have Got A Few New Members For Red Nose Day

  11-03-2015 14:12
  
  Comics stand in for boy band as they sit this year out...
  
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• Millie Mackintosh Gives Her Verdict On The Geordie Shore Girls' Weight Loss!

  11-03-2015 14:09
  
  The former Made In Chelsea heaps praise on Vicky Pattison and Co, stating that they "look great"...
  
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• The playlist: indie – Ezra Furman, Woman's Hour, the Japanese House

  11-03-2015 14:00
  
  From the ambient washes of the Japanese House to the bouncy despair of Ezra Furman, here are five indie tracks to hear this week Continue reading...
  
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• Start Swooning, Shawn Mendes Has Released His 'Life Of The Party' Vid

  11-03-2015 13:49
  
  The YouTube sensation also releases details of his debut album...
  
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• What's All This About A Terrorism Plot And Game Of Thrones?

  11-03-2015 13:36
  
  Police reported to have foiled bombing at TV show set...
  
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• The Blurred Lines verdict proves only one thing: you can't second-guess a jury

  11-03-2015 13:24
  
  For all the fears that the Gaye family’s victory will stop musicians using the mood of older records, the main consequence will be a desire to avoid going in front of capricious juriesIn a joint statement yesterday, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams denounced a California jury’s verdict against them for copyright infringement, saying it established “a horrible precedent,” which is pretty much what you’d expect to hear from two guys who’d just been ordered to shell out nearly $7.4m.O
  
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• How similar are Blurred Lines and Got to Give it Up? – video

  11-03-2015 13:01
  
  Compare and contrast the two songs by listening to the introduction to Blurred Lines, by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams followed by the opening section of Marvin Gaye's Got to Give it Up. A jury awarded Gaye's children nearly $7.4m on Tuesday after ruling that Thicke and Williams had copied the late soul singer's music to create Blurred Lines, the biggest hit song of 2013 Continue reading...
  
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• Charlie Sheen Tears Chuck Lorre A New One Over Two And A Half Men Finale

  11-03-2015 12:59
  
  Actor doesn't hold back when asked what he thought of sitcom's ending...
  
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• Anna Wintour, Derek Zoolander & A Selfie Stick: You Have To See This!

  11-03-2015 12:53
  
  The US Vogue editor strikes a pose with Derek and Hansel ahead of their runway appearance…
  
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• Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' Blurred Lines infringed Marvin Gaye copyright, court rules – video report

  11-03-2015 12:41
  
  Recording artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were found liable on Tuesday for copyright infringement in a lawsuit accusing them of plagiarizing the late soul singer Marvin Gaye in their hit single Blurred Lines. A US district court jury in Los Angeles found that parts of Gaye's 1977 hit Got to Give it Up were lifted by Thicke and Williams for their summer 2013 R&B chart-topper Continue reading...
  
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• Marvin Gaye's heirs feel 'free' after $7.4m win for Blurred Lines plagiarism

  11-03-2015 12:39
  
  Heirs of the late soul singer Marvin Gaye are overjoyed with the $7.4m (£4.91m) verdict announced on 10 March against recording stars Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams. The US District Court jury in Los Angeles sided with Gaye's estate in the closely watched litigation, finding that parts of his 1977 hit Got to Give it Up were lifted by Thicke and Williams for their summer 2013 R&B chart-topper. Free from, honestly, free from Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke's chains and what t
  
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• Kim Kardashian Reveals Her Insecurities On Night Out With Kendall & Co.

  11-03-2015 12:31
  
  Being the only non-model on a night out is even tricky for Kim K…
  
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• Chloe Sevigny Just Threw Some Major Shade At Jennifer Lawrence

  11-03-2015 12:23
  
  Indie movie star says Oscar winner is 'crass' and 'annoying'...
  
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• Disney Pixar's New Inside Out Trailer Is All Kinds Of Awesome

  11-03-2015 11:41
  
  Mindy Kaling and Amy Poehler feature as voices in a young girl's head...
  
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• WHEY-AYE! The Geordie Party Is Coming & We're BUZZING!

  11-03-2015 11:34
  
  Chuff off Cameron, and move over Milliband - the Geordies are here...
  
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• Tim Burton Is Going To Direct Disney's Live Action Version Of Dumbo

  11-03-2015 10:59
  
  Actors and CGI to be combined for remake of cartoon classic...
  
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• Snoop Dogg to front anti-gun campaign

  11-03-2015 10:59
  
  The rapper has signed up to the #ImUnloading campaign, and will also be delivering the keynote speech at this year’s SXSW festival Continue reading...
  
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• Marvin Gaye's family want Blurred Lines taken off sale

  11-03-2015 10:11
  
  Lawyers want to block sales of the Robin Thicke song following court ruling that it infringed upon Gaye’s 1977 hit Got to Give It Up Continue reading...
  
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• Bette Midler Sings Kim Kardashian's Tweets... Yes Really!

  11-03-2015 10:05
  
  Veteran performer shows her range as she appears on Jimmy Kimmel...
  
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• Those Harry Styles, Taylor Swift Rumours Have Returned... But Does She Want Him Back?

  11-03-2015 09:37
  
  Despite once singing 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together', US reports claim T-Swizzle has set her sights on Hazza... again!
  
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• Johnny Cash, D'Angelo and Foo Fighters to put out Record Store Day releases

  11-03-2015 09:30
  
  Paul McCartney, Vampire Weekend and Courtney Barnett among the other artists taking part Continue reading...
  
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• Robin Thicke And Pharrell Lose Blurred Lines Case

  11-03-2015 09:25
  
  Pop pair must pay millions to Marvin Gaye's estate...
  
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• Uh Oh! Iggy Azalea Postpones Tour, Nick Jonas And Tinashe Pull Out!

  11-03-2015 09:07
  
  The Aussie rapper's record label Def Jam have confirmed that 'artistic concerns' are to blame for the delay...
  
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• The Veronicas: ‘People ask where we met ... we say “the womb”’

  11-03-2015 09:00
  
  The Aussie twins celebrate their birthday on Christmas Day and spent years fighting their record company ... but only one of them dated Billy CorganHello the Veronicas! Would you kindly introduce each other, giving me three surprising facts about your twin, please ...Jessica: Lisa is a comedian. Continue reading...
  
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• Selena Gomez Turns Up The Heat In 'I Want You To Know' Music Video

  11-03-2015 08:47
  
  The singer throws some seriously sexy moves on the dance floor as rumoured beau Zedd watches on! Check it out here...
  
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