article_snippet: (The Hollywood Reporter)Good artists borrow.
article_snippet: On Tuesday, a California federal jury delivered a California federal jury own message to artists everywhere that inspiration can rise to copyright infringement.
article_snippet: (a.k.a. Clifford Harris Jr.), spoke how artists need wide berth in artists creative pursuits.
article_snippet: To be inspired by Marvin Gaye is an honorable thing.
article_snippet: "that '70s feeling" and that Thicke looked up to Gaye, but that to feel, isn't copyright infringement.
article_snippet: The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love a creator," said Thicke, expressing a point-of-view that's in contrast to the maxim that good artists borrow and great artists steal.
article_snippet: To demonstrate copyright infringement, Busch instead leaned on the musicologists, who testified of similarities in signature phrase, hook, keyboard-bass interplay, lyrics and theme of the songs.
article_snippet: Why would Mr. Williams need to copy anyone to create a hit?