@techflaws As I understand it, nobody argued that you could protect a groove or genre. Copyright law is unchanged. They convinced a jury that the songs were similar. Were the jurors thinking, "it just seems wrong?" Perhaps. But the plaintiffs are not accepting of the idea that they successfully copyrighted a groove.
Moreover the same footnote says the court DID allow the playing of a mashup of GTGIU and Blurred Lines as an illustration of their similarity. I can see how these two things happen in court, but as a musicologist, it's rather galling.
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