singer robin thicke and pharrell williams found themselves in court after a lawsuit was brought on byly whether "blurred lines" ripped off "gottagive it up", heard on soul train. i took it to a music producer and instructor, chris preti. >> this is the marvin gaye version. and here's the beginning of "blurs lines." ♪ >> reporter: and this is the heart of the argument. >> you would have thought it was "blurred lines." >> reporter: and the jury must have thought so, too. the jury awarded marvin gaye's family millions after they determined that they did indeed copy marvin gaye's music. a big upset to the defense. >> nothing detracts from the fact that we know it, that the song "blurred lines" came from the heart and soul of pharrell williams and no one else. >> reporter: as the lines between music tracks continue to blur. >> katy, did you use music or rhythm's from flame's song? >> it will embolden people to, you know, who may not really have a case to pursue one, and, you know, there are some statistic, i think it was eight out of the ten songsom grmy son. so people smell money. >> repo

consumer >> i he has added a number of celebrities recently beyoncÉ is coming out later thi year pharrell williams going to celebrate the 70th anniversary in germany kylie jenner has a new pair of adidas sneakers. what was most interesting was the fear of the currency war, not as much over the tariffs i asked are americans going to pay more as a result of the new tariffs that president trump announced at 10% he said no, because none of what is sold here in america is produced in china. he said it is produced in vietnam, bangladesh, cambodia, other places that's on the adidas side. obviously the industry has bigger problems because there are still plenty of shoes and apparel made in china. >> i was interested to hear what he said about brexit, the opening statement, as if it is broadly brexit hurts the sales he moved it to say brexit is not good because the fall in the pound means our sales are suffering and adidas shoes are becoming slightly more expensive in the uk in a relative sense, which i thought was an interesting different take we don't always hear on that front. >> also i mean he has been

other competitor we hope by bringing in new innovations, collaborations with kanye or beyonce or pharrell williamsl continue to make it attractive in the u.s. market >> and kylie jenner, david, their latest celebrity endorser. big takeaways for me, the u.s. consumer is not going to feel any impact when buying adidas apparel and sneakers from china on this latest ouround of tarifs it's made in vietnam and cambodia also, kind of a backhanded jab -- i don't know if you heard -- at under armour and some of the others it's consolidated that way the last few years that's where the fight for shelf space is and that's whose growing market share in the environment. part of adidas' strategy is on the celebrities. beyonce's line coming out the end of the year. we talked about kanye and yeezy. he has to be the number one most valuable seller right now in terms of sneakers. >> what do they pay kanye, do you know >> we don't know it's rumored he has $1 billion contract but i have never been able to confirm. last week they had this crazy yeezy day where they re-released all the old styles every hour or so there