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• SONY SETTL ‘BLURRED L’ LAWSU WH MARV GAYE’S FAY
• 'BLURRED L' LAWSU: MARV GAYE'S FAY, NASHVILLE ATTORNEY RICHARD BCH W APPEAL
• MARV GAYE’S CHILDREN: WHAT OUR FATHER WOULD SAY ABOUT LAWSU
• ED SHEERAN MT FACE TRIAL OVER ACCATN THAT HE COPIED MARV GAYE SONG
• ED SHEERAN MT FACE TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L
• ED SHEERAN ORRED TO STAND TRIAL MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT LAWSU
• ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU
• ‘BLURRED L’ LAWSU: MARV GAYE FAY NOW CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE TWO SONGS (EXCLIVE)
• MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE SONGS, HAS 'FIXATN' ON LATE SGER
• MARV GAYE ESTATE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS COUNSEL DEMAND RULG IN LATT LEGAL SHOWDOWN
• MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS COURT THAT PHARRELL WILLIAMS COMMTED PERJURY
• JUDGE CL TO DISMISS NEW ED SHEERAN SONG-THEFT LIGATN THAT RELI ON NEWLY REGISTERED MARV GAYE PYRIGHT
• ED SHEERAN TTIFI MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: ‘MOST POP SONGS N F OVER MOST POP SONGS’
• ED SHEERAN’S ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ FAC TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L

SONY SETTL ‘BLURRED L’ LAWSU WH MARV GAYE’S FAY

Publishg giant Sony/ATV and Marv Gaye‘s tate have reached a settlement the ongog lawsu over Rob Thicke’s 2013 smash “Blurred L, ” acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter. While the terms of the settlement were not ma public, as the se mov forward Sony/ATV will not have to fend givg pyrights to “Blurred L” and Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up. ” Gaye’s tate then unter-sued, accg EMI of not protectg the R&B legend’s mic and actively tryg to stop the fay om hrg “Blurred L”‘ succs (the publishg pany’s chairman allegedly blasted the fay for “g an credible song” and “killg the goose that laid the goln egg”).

Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams lost their appeal of a lower urt's lg that they ged on Marv Gaye's song "Got To Give It Up" when they wrote the chart-toppg sgle "Blurred L.

"The pyright dispute has been tensely bated the mic muny, where some feared the feral urt's ial lg set a judicial precent that created an unprecented pyright protectn for a song's groove or Gaye fay, reprented by proment Nashville mic dtry attorney Richard Bch, argued that Thicke and Williams pied "Got To Give It Up" whout permissn, and their legal filgs clud reports by milogists documentg siari between the two songs. Lawsus:Miley Cys sued for $300 ln pyright gement seMore:'Blurred L' lawsu qutns protectns for olr songsIn s lg released on Wednday, the 9th Circu Court of Appeals led favor of the Gaye fay, upholdg a lower urt's $5. A judge has entered a nearly $5 ln judgment agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams favor of Marv Gaye’s fay the long-nng lawsu volvg pyright gement surroundg Thicke and Williams’ song “Blurred L” and Gaye’s 1977 h “Got to Give It Up, ” Billboard reports.

'BLURRED L' LAWSU: MARV GAYE'S FAY, NASHVILLE ATTORNEY RICHARD BCH W APPEAL

“Y, Amy Wadge and I wrote the song ‘Thkg Out Loud, ’” he Newman/Associated PrsIn a closely watched mic pyright trial, jurors ultimately sid wh Ed Sheeran, who had been acced of pyg his Grammy-wng ballad “Thkg Out Loud” om Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On. ”ImageEd Townsend was a songwrer and producer who llaborated wh Gaye on the “Let’s Get It On” Ochs Archiv/Getty ImagWhat parts of the songs are dispute?

The trial was watched closely mic and legal circl as the latt example a seri of s that have alt wh whether monplace bs of harmony or melody n be owned by any poser or are part of the public trend began 2015 when a jury found that Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams, their h “Blurred L, ” had ged on the pyright of another Gaye tune, “Got to Give It Up, ” and they were orred to pay more than $5 ln damag.

More specifilly, they found themselv on the receivg end of a lawsu om the tate of Marv Gaye, which claimed the pair’s song ripped off major elements of Gaye’s 1977 smash h “Got to Give It Up.

MARV GAYE’S CHILDREN: WHAT OUR FATHER WOULD SAY ABOUT LAWSU

He was on rerd as sayg that he’d stolen om Marv Gaye before, that “Got to Give It Up” was one of his favore songs, and that he had told Williams he wanted to wre somethg like wh him.

Marv Gaye‘s children have penned an open letter the hope of “set[tg] the rerd straight on a few misnceptns” the media’s verage of their succsful lawsu agast the wrers of Rob Thicke‘s 2013 h “Blurred L. Nona Gaye, Frankie Gaye and Marv Gaye III’s jot letter maly div to the background and legacy of Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up, ” the 1977 sgle the urt found to have been pied by Thicke and -wrer Pharrell Williams. Even though the oute of the lawsu favored the Gaye fay, the children claim that all of this uld have been avoid if Thicke and Williams had approached the fay before releasg the sgle, pecially sce the siari were emed to be not cintal.

” Sce the proceedgs, the fay had noted some siari between Gaye’s “A’t That Peculiar” and Williams’ “Happy, ” though the fay has nfirmed the open letter that they “have absolutely no claim whatsoever ncerng ‘Happy. Composer, arranger, and thor Richard Nil, PhD., talks about the signifince of the pyright claim agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams song “Blurred L” and victor lawsu om the Marv Gaye tate. But when the Marv Gaye tate was victor s claim that the Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams song “Blurred L” had ged the pyright of Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up, ” sent rippl through the mic dtry.

ED SHEERAN MT FACE TRIAL OVER ACCATN THAT HE COPIED MARV GAYE SONG

Still, while ncedg that “Blurred L” did not py any of Gaye’s melodi or lyrics, the urt neverthels led that the siary of the “feel” of the rhythm sectn was sufficient grounds for a cisn of pyright gement.

ED SHEERAN MT FACE TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L

But no one has mentned that the rhythm arrangement on “Got to Give It Up” was not wrten by Marv Gaye alone, though he owned the rights to acrdg to pyright law as terpreted at the time. A feral judge says Ed Sheeran mt face a jury trial over whether he stole key piec of his “Thkg Out Loud” om Marv Gaye‘s inic “Let’s Get It On, ” rejectg the Brish sger-songwrer’s efforts to toss out the long-nng pyright se. Sheeran’s attorneys argued that the lawsu – filed by an enty that owns a partial stake Gaye’s famo 1973 song – was valid bee the batn of simple elements the sger allegedly stole was not unique enough to be vered by a pyright the first place.

After he was h wh the current lawsu 2018, Sheeran’s lawyers argued that the elements he allegedly took om the Gaye’s song – a chord progrsn and the harmonic rhythm – were too monplace to be the exclive property of any one songwrer. The pyright protectn afford to such songs is very weak, but Judge Stanton said a jury might still be able to fd that Sheeran’s song was close enough that ged Gaye’s track. Instead, the se was filed by an enty owned by dtry executive David Pullman lled Stctured Asset Sal, which owns a one-third stake the pyrights of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Gaye.

Sger Ed Sheeran has been orred to fight his se ont of a jury after he was acced of pyg elements om Marv Gaye’s h 1973 song, “Let’s Get It On” on his own Grammy Award-wng track, “Thkg Out Loud. A US judge has orred Ed Sheeran to go to trial after the artist attempted to throw out a lawsu claimg his song “Thkg Out Loud” pied Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On. ”The pyright gement lawsu was filed 2018 not by Gaye’s tate, but by Stctured Asset Sal, an enty that owns part of the pyrights of “Let’s Get It On” -wrer Ed Townsend.

ED SHEERAN ORRED TO STAND TRIAL MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT LAWSU

The artist Sami Swch and producer Ross O’Donoghue acced Sheeran of pyg their song “Oh Why” his 2017 h “Shape of You, ” while Gaye’s heirs famoly sued Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams’ “Blurred L” as a rip of “Got to Give It Up. ” Gaye’s tate end up victor that su, receivg more than $5 ln damag as well as a songwrg Sheeran Orred to Stand Trial Marv Gaye Copyright Lawsu Carys AnrsonPopular PostsCool Found Dead at Age 59Post Malone Hospal After Experiencg "Stabbg Pa" on Si of BodyFoo Fighters Complete Lp for Taylor Hawks Los Angel Tribute ConcertFoo Fighters Honor Taylor Hawks wh a Send Six-Hour Mil Loveft L.

A jury New York has led that Brish sger-songwrer Ed Sheeran is not liable for pyright gement a se that has been closely watched by the global entertament se centered on whether Sheeran ripped off Marv Gaye’s Let’s Get It On and will be seen as a major victory for rerdg artists.

Sheeran’s lawyer, Ilene Farkas, had told the jurors Manhattan feral urt that siari the chord progrsns and rhythms of Gaye’s classic and Sheeran’s h Thkg Out Loud were “the letters of the alphabet of mic”. “The are basic mil buildg blocks that songwrers now and forever mt be ee to e, or all of who love mic will be poorer for , ” she Keisha Rice, who reprents the heirs of Gaye’s -wrer Ed Townsend who are sug Sheeran and his rerd label, said her clients had not claimed to own basic mil elements but rather “the way which the mon elements were uniquely bed”. Townsend’s heirs 2017 sued Sheeran, his label Warner Mic Group and his mic publisher Sony Mic Publishg, claimg gement of their pyright tert the Gaye song.

ED SHEERAN CLEARED OF GG PYRIGHT MARV GAYE LAWSU

“If I had done what you’re accg me of dog I’d be que an idt to stand on stage ont of 25, 000 people, ” he sger is also facg claims over Thkg Out Loud the same urt om a pany owned by vtment banker David Pullman that holds pyright terts the Gaye song. 3m judgment om a lawsu claimg the Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams song Blurred L pied Gaye’s Got to Give It sger is the subject of a new Disney+ documentary doceri Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All which premiered earlier this week. On Wednday, the fay went nuclear wh unterclaims that allege that Thicke stole the summer mega-h and also mted pyright gement on Gaye’s “After the Dance” to create his song “Love After War.

” What’s more, the new legal papers obtaed by The Hollywood Reporter suggt that Thicke’s “Marv Gaye fixatn” extends to addnal songs the Thicke repertoire. Perhaps even more nsequential, Gaye’s fay also has set s sights on EMI April, the song publisher now owned by Sony/ATV that has bs relatnships wh both sis. Acrdg to the unterclaims, EMI has breached a ntract and s fiduciary duty by failg to protect Gaye’s songs, attemptg to timidate the fay agast filg any legal actn, failg to rema ntral when faced wh a nflict of tert and attemptg to turn public opn agast the fay.

The penalty for those acts, says the Gaye fay, should be that EMI los all profs on “Blurred L” as well as rights to admister the song talog of Gaye, known as the “Prce of Soul. Went to a California feral urt wh the aim of preemptively protectg “Blurred L” om allegatns that was illegally rived om Gaye’s song as well as Funkalic’s “Sexy Ways.

‘BLURRED L’ LAWSU: MARV GAYE FAY NOW CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE TWO SONGS (EXCLIVE)

In the latt urt papers, Frankie Gaye and Nona Gaye say that not only do the lawsu ncern “blatant pyg of a nstellatn of distctive and signifint posnal elements of Marv Gaye’s classic #1 song, ” but that Thicke himself ndidly admted as much.

The Gaye fay quot mic crics at The New York Tim, Vice, Rollg Stone and Bloomberg Bsweek who have remarked about the Marv Gaye remblance “Blurred L.

While the untersu mak the se that the public has tected Gaye Thicke’s other songs — “cludg the siar bridge and intil lyrics om Marv Gaye’s ‘I Want You’ Thicke’s siarly-themed work, ‘Make U Love Me’ ” — brgs a send pyright gement claim only over Thicke’s “Love After War. ” The Gaye fay owns rights to “Got to Give It Up” and “After the Dance, ” but says has assigned the rights to admister and protect those pyrights to EMI.

MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE SONGS, HAS 'FIXATN' ON LATE SGER

Acrdg to the untersu, EMI’s “misnduct” clus failg to intify and raise claims based on entsted Marv Gaye pyrights, and after allegedly admtg that a claim was viable, “subsequently stctg s ligatn attorney to timidate the Gaye Fay om filg an actn by antagonistilly warng that any lawsu would be ivolo. The Gaye fay asserts that not only did EMI refe to brg unterclaims after seeg a “renowned milogist’s report, ” but that gave “strong biased support to the Blurred Wrers.

To support the claim that EMI has breached s legal, ntractual and ethil obligatns, the Gaye fay says that the chairman of EMI ntacted s legal reprentative and acced the fay of “g an credible song, ” “killg the goose that laid the goln egg” and beg rponsible for “Blurred L” not receivg an MTV Vio Mic Award. The Gaye fay also acc EMI and reprentativ of Williams and Thicke of “the plantg of a knowgly false story the prs that the Gaye Fay supposedly turned down a “six figure settlement, ” (no such offer was ma) orr to make them appear unreasonable. “Not only did EMI fail to brg this actn, which is necsary to rry out EMI’s duti to protect the Gaye Fay’s pyrights, ” says the untersu, “EMI attempted to dissua the Gaye Fay om pursug this actn by repeated threats and tactics to timidate the Gaye Fay and s reprentativ.

“Acrdgly, there is a strong likelihood that nflicts of tert, such as the one the prent se, will arise aga between the EMI Defendants and the Gaye Fay. Based upon the blatant and egreg breach of the EMI Defendants’ fiduciary duty and their venant of good fah and fair alg, the EMI Defendants have proven that they nnot be tsted to rema ntral and impartial, and that they are unworthy of the level of tst and profsnal nduct which is required of a pyright admistrator charged wh protectg the Gaye Fay’s important terts pyrighted works created by Marv Gaye. What is surprisg their prs-release-disguised-as-a-plat (much of which will eventually be stricken by the urt) is their acknowledgment that the Gaye fay has no standg to brg a pyright claim.

MARV GAYE ESTATE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS COUNSEL DEMAND RULG IN LATT LEGAL SHOWDOWN

A spokperson for Sony/ATV said a statement that hadn’t yet seen the claims, but add, “We have repeatedly advised the Gaye fay’s attorney that the two songs qutn have been evaluated by a leadg milogist who nclud that ‘Blurred L’ do not ge ‘Got To Give It Up.

In a send legal victory for Ed Sheeran this month, a feral district judge dismissed another lawsu that claimed Sheeran’s h “Thkg Out Loud” pied the 1973 Marv Gaye h “Let’s Get It On. The lawsu, brought by Stctured Asset Sal LLC, vtment banker David Pullman’s pany that owns one-third of the pyright to “Let’s Get It On, ” is nnected to a prev lawsu Sheeran won earlier this month agast the fay of Gaye’s -wrer Edward Townsend.

The fay ially claimed that Thicke's h plagiarized the soul in's 1977 track "Got to Give It Up" — and now, they're sistg that the sger stole om two of Gaye's Augt, the wrers of "Blurred L" — Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr. — preemptively sued Gaye's tate after plats (as well as the group Funkalic), claimg that "Blurred L" was "starkly different" om "Got to Give It Up.

MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS COURT THAT PHARRELL WILLIAMS COMMTED PERJURY

" Now Gaye's fay have filed a untersu agast Thicke that claims he not only ripped off "Got to Give It Up" but that he also ged on the pyright to Gaye's song "After the Dance" for the tle track of his 2011 album "Love After War.

" Legal papers also suggt that they're eyeg other songs Thicke's talog over the sger's alleged "Marv Gaye fixatn, " acrdg to The Hollywood Gaye llaborator David Rz: Rob Thicke, you're no Marv GayeIn their su, the Gay acce Thicke of wrg a siar chos, melody and more his song "Love After War, " wh regard to Gaye's "After the Dance. '" They have not yet filed any claims over that song lawsu also go after Gaye's mic publisher, EMI April, which now operat unr the pany that manag Thicke's mic, Sony/ATV. Acrdg to THR, Gaye's fay acc the mic publisher of not protectg the sger's songs, attemptg to sre them away om takg legal reurse, givg up ntraly when the nflict of tert arose and tryg to draw public support away om the fay.

JUDGE CL TO DISMISS NEW ED SHEERAN SONG-THEFT LIGATN THAT RELI ON NEWLY REGISTERED MARV GAYE PYRIGHT

It claims they acced the Gay of "g an credible song, " "killg the goose that laid the goln egg" and sullyg the opportuny for "Blurred L" to w an MTV Vio Mic Award, as well as stiflg s chanc for wng a Grammy.

" Thicke has sce nied any associatn wh the Gaye 's fay quote crics who have claimed to hear a remblance between the songs reviews for Rollg Stone and The New York Tim. Reprentativ for Marv Gaye as well as unsel for Pharrell Williams recently lled for a cisn their ongog urtroom nontatn, which iated December of 2019. For background, a feral appeals urt 2018 upheld a multiln-dollar verdict agast Williams and Rob Thicke, who a jury termed had ged upon Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” (1977) their “Blurred L” (2013) December of 2019, the Marv Gaye tate acced Pharrell Williams of perjury based upon ments he ma durg a GQ terview wh Rick Rub, purportedly ntradictg statements he offered durg the origal trial.

“I did not go the stud wh the tentn of makg anythg feel like, or to sound like, Marv Gaye, ” Williams had relayed while unr the GQ terview, however, the Virgia Beach-born artist dited: “What we [Williams and equent llaborator Chad Hugo] always tried to do was reverse engeer the songs that did somethg to emotnally and figure out where the mechanism is. It’s very technil what you’ve done, ’” add Pharrell top of the $5 ln verdict, Marv Gaye’s tate lled on Williams to pay lns legal fe om the years-long lawsu.

ED SHEERAN TTIFI MARV GAYE PYRIGHT SE: ‘MOST POP SONGS N F OVER MOST POP SONGS’

(He and the se’s addnal fendants were found liable for pyright gement, but not willful pyright gement, which, among other thgs, would have pelled them to ver the Marv Gaye tate’s legal fe. )Williams and his unsel Febary of 2020 phed back agast the claims, while the Marv Gaye tate returned fire early March, jt before the domtic onset of the COVID-19 panmic. Love or hate , the “Blurred L” se beme a signature moment this past after Pharrell Williams, Rob Thicke and a song publisher were orred to pay nearly $5 ln for gg the pyright to Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.

ED SHEERAN’S ‘THKG OUT LOUD’ FAC TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE PYRIGHT CLAIM, JUDGE L

But wh the theory that the tth may have led the judge to le differently on summary judgment and avoid a trial altogether, the Gay also want the judge to revis his cisn to ny an award of lns attorney fe. His attorneys argued that Gaye was only entled to a “th” pyright, a doctre that riv om a Supreme Court cisn that analyzed whether phone books were entled to protectn.