On the stiletto heels of the Blurred L verdict, we look at Marv Gaye's song and a spot-on femist parody.
Contents:
THE BLURRED L OF MARV GAYE AND FEMIST PARODY
Rob Thicke has lost the "Blurred L" lawsu he has been engaged wh the Marv Gaye tate. * blurred lines gay parody *
Yeah, and I jt thought was an extremely tchy kd of Marv Gaye pastiche. Sce Pharrell and Rob Thicke lost the urt se for pyright gement wh the Marv Gaye tate, do that affect you anyway? I have to assume that whatever royalti I’ve paid them the past were given to the Marv Gaye tate the settlement.
And gog forward, maybe jt go directly to the Gaye tate? Marv Gaye tate ws $7.
'BLURRED L' JURY FDS FOR MARV GAYE
Weird Al Yankovic talks the story behd his “Blurred L” parody and what happened when Pharrell and Rob Thicke lost their Marv Gaye pyright se. * blurred lines gay parody *
UPDATE: A lawyer for the tate of Marv Gaye tells Rollg Stone that he will try to block all future sal of “Blurred L” until an agreement is reached. Rob Thicke noticeably ripped off Marv Gaye‘s 1977 h “Got to Give It Up” when he wrote the smash h “Blurred L” wh Pharrell Williams and T.
He and -songwrer Pharrell Williams mt pay Gaye’s fay $7. The verdict puts to rt over a year’s worth of legal back and forth between Thicke and Gaye’s tate, which the latter sought $25 ln damag.
* blurred lines gay parody *
A reprentative for Gaye’s tate was not immediately available for ment. The cisn, which hged on the fact that Gaye’s fay owned only elements of the sheet mic to “Got to Give It Up, ” me om eight jurors who listened to ttimony om milogists, as well as Thicke and Williams. Marv Gaye’s children, Nona, Frankie and Marv Gaye III, will receive $4 ln damag and $3.
“I’m really grateful, ” Janis Gaye, Marv’s former wife and the mother of Nona and Frankie and stepmother of Marv Gaye III, told the Tim. Rpond to threats of legal actn by the Gaye tate and publisher Bridgeport Mic by preemptively sug them, along wh Funkalic, claimg “Blurred L” was “strikgly different” than “Got to Give It Up” and the latter group’s “Sexy Ways. “In realy, the Gaye fendants are claimg ownership of an entire genre, as opposed to a specific work, and Bridgeport is claimg the same work.