article_snippet: During opening arguments, King told the jury, "We're going to show you what you already know: that no one owns a genre or a style or a groove.
article_snippet: Over the next week-and-a-half, King would execute a two-pronged strategy: First, King emphasized that Frankie and Nona Gaye only owned compositional elements in the "Got to Give It Up" sheet music, leaving out more recognizable elements of the recording like the percussion and singing.
article_snippet: Second, King had witnesses testifying both to the differences of "Blurred Lines" and "Got To Give It Up" as well as the similarities in other famous songs.
article_snippet: The Gaye family was handicapped by U.S. District Judge John Kronstadt's decision to preclude use at trial of the original sound recording of "Got to Give It Up" because Gaye's copyrights on the song were limited to the sheet music compositions.
article_snippet: King offered a rebuttal.