Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself

Blurred lines indeed. The recent verdict by a federal jury in Los Angeles may have settled one case, but it has ignited a larger debate about creativity and ownership and how to sort out the co-opted from the copied. ¶ After a jury determined Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied parts of Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up" in their hit "Blurred Lines" -- and awarded Gaye's family $7.4 million -- the music industry erupted criticism, praise and predictions of the death of the Pop Music or the...