That's right millennials, "sampling" other people's music and writing your own lyrics over it is not talent, it is not musical skill. That's what toddlers do to entertain their parents. This is called plagiarism and it will cost you.

Here that you pretentious "deejays"? Appropriating other people's music does not constitute talent.

How can a musical style be copyrighted with the copyright simultaneously limited to the music on the printed page?

How can one disentangle musical style from the means of its transmission in this day and age?

Especially if, as in this case, the melody, harmony, and rhythm differ?

Those two recordings do not sound the same or similar to my ears. I don't get it.

@3 Really? To me, it sounds like Robin Thicke is trying his hardest to cover the Marting Gaye song, but only heard it a few times... a while ago.

In a half hour or less I could find 25 electric slide guitar songs that sound that similar. In my opinion the finder of fact made an ignorant subjective conclusion based on "feel." The "feel" IS distinctive, but no more distinctive to me than the whole genre of electric slide guitar blues. It is just a "feel" that musicians weren't by an large working with, so it registers subjectively as unique. Half the rock/pop songs incorporating Indian sitar/drum sound sound this similar. Hell, look at reggae. Makes my point even stronger.

I don't have a solution, but it's weird.