Should the Beach Boys Get Royalties for Katy Perry's 'California Gurls' Song?

I don't think she copied it, but it would be funny to see the Beach Boys get a chunk of her money.

I thought she stole a pair of beach balls from 'em - epic rack....

"California Gurls" and "California Girls" different spelling, different song

I just watched the official video, and Snoop's exact line (spoken, not sung, at the very end, one time, as an improvisational musing or afterthought, and not in any way integral to the song) is, "I really wish you all could be California girls," not, "I wish they all could be California girls."

I demand the Beach Boys (whom I happen to love otherwise) apologize to Mr. Dogg immediately, because, if anyone should know a thing or two about stealing music it would be the Beach Boys. They need to apologize to Charles Manson while they're at it:

Her song was inspired by their song not done word for word or anything close

they do not mach

It's her own song. I'm not rooting for either of them. I'm just saying.

She also stole the beat from Kesha's Tik Tok

The Beach Boys likes Katy Perry's song California Gurls, the Record company are the ones that want Royalties just cause Katy used the name of the song. :/

Besides, the less money going to that clown the better.

Her record execs just might consider having a "smash hit, summertime single" from someone who has substantial musical talent.

As much as she is what Corporate Music stands for, she's entitled to her song. Granted the Beach Boys approved and the owners for the song want money. JERKOFFS!!!!

i dont think so ... she made her own song !!

the song ---sounds nothing like the original!!!

It was not the same song, so hell no. BB get your own jobs. If this was a legal argument, then anyone who says that line would owe them money.

theree Song there Property

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Has anyone compared the two songs? They're only alike in title.

California Girls is a rock standard. It's been around for a long time. There's no doubt Perry used it as a type of parody/tie in. Frankly I am tired of the current crop of "artists" who somehow never create much that is original.

yes

Idk, but she really needs to put on a shirt. I swear these so called "Disney Stars" are getting sluttier every single freaking day. And people wonder why this generation is so messed up.

kat perry isn't a disney star.lol. a few of her first hits were " i kissed a girl" and "ur so gay"(it was actually spelt like that). so she never had that whole innocent, good girl thing about her.

She was at the Kids Choice Awards like that though.

Kids Choice awards has become something that should concern most parents. Frankly some of the awards are given to people who should not be near kids, much less be their icons.

Exactly.

Eeeewwww. What can I say? I'm 49 and this music is clearly made for tweens.The Beach Boys really have to be petty to think they have any kind of case here. I had necer heard the video before today ,so i listened to what I could stand and no way does this even remotley resemble The Beach Boys song. They need to go back to the Rest home . I understand that rock is more for the younger crowd. At my age ,we lack the fire and anger needed to create good music. Case in point,
Need I say more?

Everyone samples from someone at least once in the music industry, from I've noticed. Honestly, I didn't even know that line was in the song, let alone that it apart of Snoop's rap, because I didn't pay any attention. Really, when I listen to the song, I'm more focused on Katy's lyrics (or if I'm watching the video, ogling her boobs) to care about one freakin' line.

No

its one frickin line

Yeah, they aren't suing so......................yeah. Link= http://www.nydailynews.com/en...

it's not even spelled the same! Katy's is spelled Gurls, and the beach boys deserve no cut if Katy doesn't want to give it to them, if she does then woop-de-friggen-do!

So let me get this straight...you can steal somebody else's property (music lyrics are intellectual property) so long as you don't know how to spell the words your stealing? Oh yeah, you're a real brainiac.

Using your own logic, I can steal your personal information like drivers license, social security number, and anything that has to do with your identity so long as I change a letter or two in there someplace. I can also take your car and drive it as long as I repaint it or hang up a different air freshener from the rear view mirror...it's not your car anymore, it's a different color and the air freshener is different.

You may be the dumbest person on sodahead.

You've nailed it. Art, whether a painting or choreography or a song are owned by the creator who made them. This is why dance productions prohibit filming during performance for fear of someone stealing their work. This is also why Paloma Picasso has a staff lawyer whose only job is to find people using her father's images without paying royalties. Like it or not, Perry lifted the lyrics.

fine what about the country song california girls! If you googled that I'm sure there'd be millions of different hits from different people.

But guess what...Gretchen Wilson didn't also lift the catch phrase from the original. If she had stuck with the title she would probably be fine except for the lawsuit Kesha should file for lifting her beat off the song Tic Toc. But she didn't, she included and EXACT LINE from the song at the end...she capitalized off the original.

I know it seems minor but it only takes a couple of words. She will pay.

ok, number 1, the spelling thing was a joke, no one is that stupid, and Califirnia Girls is a phrase, a seqence of words, the songs are not alike in any way. If authors sued other authors for naming their books the same, do you know how much sueing and demanding of royalties there would be? There are plenty of songs with the same name! The beach boys are just being selfish money-hungary bastards. As much as I enjoy the beach boys, this is just ridiculous! And the name of a song is way less major than a social security number, awful comparisson!

Actually, the Beach Boys aren't the ones behind this. It's the people who own the rights to the music - the beach boys sold that off years ago. So if you're going to call somebody bastards you should go after the right people, Brian Wilson has gone on record as saying he liked the song and doesn't have a problem with it.

And you're absolutely right in that two songs can have the same title and be totally different songs with no copyright infringement EXCEPT that in this case the used the "hood" line from the original song at the end AND Katy Herself said this song is a tribute to the Beach Boys.

Yeah, she didn't get any inspiration from the original song at all - all merely an accident. Is that what you would have us believe. Well, Katy doesn't believe that and the people who own the song don't either.

Lastly, Authors DO sue each other over use of the same title. Do you really think for a moment that If I wrote a book and called it "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" that JK Rowling (a mega billionaire) would have a team of Lawyers on me in a heartbeat? She and the companies she's in business with sued every author who was writing books about decoding the magic and words written about in the books.

Music, Books, Art, photographs are all protected by copyright laws and are the authors, originators intellectual property. Using all or any part is illegal, plain and simple.

she didnt copy anything from them..so no..plus Katy Perry is alot better in my opinion.

She didn't? "I wish they all could be california girls" isn't a lyric in any beach boys songs? The line AND the title of her song is exactly the same as a line from the Beach Boys song title "California Girls"...and please don't tell me they aren't spelled the same. Legally, you aren't given a free pass if you steal something but don't know how to spell it or decide to spell it a different way.

Besides, this isn't about who's better than whom. It's about who's stealing from whom. I think you'll find Katy in the latter and not the former.

P.S. Katy Perry is a hack - she'll be gone from your memory in 1 year and you will have moved on to the next ho-bag.

Beach Boys suck. and how many people have used that line or something similar iin their songs? it isnt just Katy Perry. So if she has to repay them then so be it but she is good so thanks for that information.