Indeed...And as someone else stated, it's not only the Gap Band...

George Duke never had to pay up Bootsy....

Let's keep it real....Some of the vocals on one of the best commercial Duke songs "Dukey Stick," a track that got the party started in almost every setting (Barbecues, hood parties, ect..) deliberately (and cleverly) took on the sound of P-Funk....And didn't even try to hide it...

Even more specifically, there's so much Bootsy talk ("Ahhhh") and catch phrases in that song fans early on thought it was an actual Bootsy song when it first came out...

So yes...this is NO different that "Blurred Lines" if you are looking at this agenda free....