While musical copying, and copying lawsuits, are nothing new, Ray Lehmann finds “different” and “potentially problematic” a jury’s $7.4 million verdict “against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, asserting the pair’s 2013 smash ‘Blurred Lines’ borrowed inappropriately from the 1977 Marvin Gaye song ‘Got to Give It Up.'” [R Street Institute] More: Ann Althouse. [read post]

"Robin Cerdeira sued Martindale, alleging that she became the subject of harassing conduct directed towards her by co-worker, Melvin Bowers, who worked in a separate department from plaintiff and who was not her supervisor nor a supervisor or manager within his own department. [read post]