A respectful homage, or a rip-off? The jury's decision that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it Up" in "Blurred Lines" is just the latest in decades of cases where allegations of plagiarism took pop music from the recording studio to a courtroom.
Neal Augenstein has been a general assignment reporter with WTOP since 1997. He says he looks forward to coming to work every day, even though that means waking up at 3:30 a.m.