Jurors awarded over $7 million to the Marvin Gaye family Tuesday in a court battle over the hit song "Blurred Lines".
Photo courtesy of YouTube. In a move unsurprising, perhaps, to anyone following the painful details of this unfortunate copyright trial, a jury today found Pharrell and Robin Thicke's 2013 hit “Blurred Lines” far too similar to the Marvin Gaye 1977
That echoes a pillar of the Gaye family's case, which leaned on the fact that the "Blurred Lines" songwriting duo said in several press interviews that "Got to Give It Up" inspired them. In a guest column published Thursday in The Hollywood Reporter
On Tuesday (10), a jury in a Los Angeles Federal Court found Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, co-writers of Thicke's 2013 mega hit “Blurred Lines,” guilty of unwillingly stealing from Marvin Gaye's 1977 hit “Got To Give It Up.” The 8-person jury
Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke to pay $7.4m to Marvin Gaye's family over Blurred Lines. Jury decides Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied 1977 hit Got to Give It Up in lawsuit filed by Gaye's children. Comment: The