This week in class we learned about copyright. And some of the crazy rules and regulations that things are indeed copyrighted by. I found the rule that when something is copyrighted, it is done so for 120 years, so insane. So someone can just take it after you are dead and claim its their own and make money off of it? No thank you. That’s not how it should work! We also were shown some examples of some songs that were supposedly rendered the same song. Such as Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke and a Marvin Gaye song. This I believe is too similar to claim as Robin’s own. However, with the case of Sam Smith and Tom Petty, I believe that no monies should have been awarded to Tom. There isn’t enough similarities to give half of Sam’s royalties away.