Business Law

Gaye Family versus Pharell Willaims & Robin Thicke

BLURRED LINES and Chapters $1-3($and sneak peek at Chapter $4)$Review$/$TEMPLATE

This template is to be used in conjunction with the videos regarding Gaye v$.$ Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke.

The following questions are based on the video$($s$)$ posted at the Module. Please have your textbook handy as some of the questions will require you to know the legal theory and$/$or principles as applied in the case from your chapter reading. Listen carefully to the report and all the "evidence" mentioned in the case.

Under the area of Classifications of Law, answer the following:

This case was a private or public law issue?

This case was based on civil or criminal law?

In Chapter $1,$ Exhibit $1-1,$ this case falls under which "Areas of Law that May Affect Business Decision Making" as noted on the graph?

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were boith found liable for damages to the Gaye family? $\frac{T}{F}$

If so$,$ what was the amount of damages awarded to the family?$

What was the approximate profit made by the song Blurred Lines, if any?