Rulg that 'Blurred L' pied Marv Gaye song rocks mic world - Los Angel Tim

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• JURY FDS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG FOR BLURRED LJURY FDS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG FOR BLURRED L
• ED SHEERAN SONG ‘SOUNDS VERY, VERY SIAR’ TO MARV GAYE’S, MIC EXPERT SAYS AT TRIAL
• ED SHEERAN GO TO TRIAL MARV GAYE PYRIGHT BATTLE: WHAT TO KNOW
• JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'
• ‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
• GOT TO GIVE $7.4 MILLN UP: JURY FDS PHARRELL AND THICKE COPIED MARV GAYE SONG
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS, ROB THICKE PIED MARV GAYE SONG FOR 'BLURRED L,' JURY FDS
• ED SHEERAN TRI TO PROVE HE DID NOT PY MARV GAYE SONG
• RULG THAT ‘BLURRED L’ PIED MARV GAYE SONG ROCKS MIC WORLD
• ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND ROB THICKE TO PAY $7.4M TO MARV GAYE'S FAY OVER BLURRED L

JURY FDS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG FOR BLURRED LJURY FDS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG FOR BLURRED L

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, had acced the pop star of pyg “Thkg Out Loud. “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. “Thkg Out Loud”Ed Sheeran“Let’s Get It On”Marv GayeWhat were the trial’s highlights?

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ED SHEERAN SONG ‘SOUNDS VERY, VERY SIAR’ TO MARV GAYE’S, MIC EXPERT SAYS AT TRIAL

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Source Associated Prs Mar 10, 2015, 10:06 PM UTC|Share this storyRob Thicke and Pharrell pied a classic Marv Gaye song while wrg their 2013 h "Blurred L, " a jury found this afternoon. Acrdg to the Associated Prs, Gay' children are beg award $7.

I., who appeared on the track, did not ge on Gaye's pyright. The Gaye fay is now askg for an junctn on sal of "Blurred L, " acrdg to The Wrap's Pamela 's fay sued after noticg siari to their father's song the 2013 h. Thicke had argued that he was too high and dnk to have pied Gaye, let alone legimately ntribute to the track.

ED SHEERAN GO TO TRIAL MARV GAYE PYRIGHT BATTLE: WHAT TO KNOW

There's no hidg that micians often emulate sounds om the past, but Gaye's lawyers argued that Thicke's song went que a b further than that, reportedly posg that parts of Gaye's song appeared all but two bars of "Blurred L. Mician Ed Sheeran’s urt se ntued Wednday a high-profile pyright trial about whether his smash sgle “Thkg Out Loud” pied the classic Marv Gaye song “Let’s Get It On.

JURY FDS THAT ED SHEERAN DIDN'T PY MARV GAYE CLASSIC 'LET'S GET IT ON'

Sheeran is acced of pyg “Let’s Get It On” by the heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote the 1973 h wh Gaye. Gaye died 1984 and Townsend died 2003. In his own openg statement Tuday, Townsend attorney Ben Cmp noted Sheeran played his ballad and Gaye’s song back-to-back a medley durg a ncert, and lled the moment a “smokg gun.

The article has been Sheeran took the stand for the first time this week to fend agast allegatns that he pied elements of Marv Gaye’s 1973 h “Let’s Get It On” when producg his own 2014 h song, “Thkg Out Loud.

‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL

”Heirs of Gaye’s llaborator and “Let’s Get It On” -wrer Ed Townsend sued Sheeran 2017, allegg pyright gement over siari the two songs’s chord progrsns. ”Sger Ed Sheeran arrived at a Manhattan urthoe on May 1 to fend agast allegatns that he pied elements of Marv Gaye’s song “Let’s Get It On. Sheeran says that he and his -wrer Amy Wadge did not py Gaye’s song.

This se has siari wh a 2015 legal dispute volvg another of Gaye’s songs, “Got to Give It Up, ” said Hayleigh Bosher, a senr lecturer tellectual property law at Bnel Universy London, via that California se, artists Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams were found to have ged the pyright of “Got to Give It Up” their ntroversial h song, “Blurred L. ” The jury found that “the feel and vib of the song” were pied, Bosher said, and Thicke and Williams were orred to pay members of Gaye’s fay over $5 ln damag.

NEW YORK — A feral jury New York nclud Thursday that Brish sger Ed Sheeran didn't steal key ponents of Marv Gaye's classic 1970s tune "Let's Get It On" when he created his h song "Thkg Out Loud.

GOT TO GIVE $7.4 MILLN UP: JURY FDS PHARRELL AND THICKE COPIED MARV GAYE SONG

He then spoke for about 10 mut wh the platiffs, cludg the dghter of Ed Townsend, who -created the 1973 soul classic wh Gaye.

Gaye was killed 1984 at age 44, shot by his father as he tried to tervene a fight between his parents.

AdvertisementSKIP McCarten/RtersMarch 10, 2015For the last year and a half, the mic dtry has been gripped by a lawsu over whether Rob Thicke’s 2013 h “Blurred L” was merely remiscent of a song by Marv Gaye, or had crossed the le to plagiarism.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS, ROB THICKE PIED MARV GAYE SONG FOR 'BLURRED L,' JURY FDS

A feral jury Los Angel on Tuday agreed that “Blurred L” had gone too far, and pied elements of Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up” whout permissn.

Gaye’s and Frankie Gaye, two of Marv Gaye’s children, are to receive $4 ln damag pl about $3.

ED SHEERAN TRI TO PROVE HE DID NOT PY MARV GAYE SONG

Bch, a lawyer for the Gaye fay, portrayed the lg as a refutatn of that view. ”For the fay of Marv Gaye — who died 1984 — the jury’s verdict was wele. Williams sued first, seekg a claratn om a judge to protect them agast gement claims that they said had been ma privately by the Gaye fay.

RULG THAT ‘BLURRED L’ PIED MARV GAYE SONG ROCKS MIC WORLD

Nona and Frankie Gaye quickly the verdict was read on Tuday, members of the Gaye fay — who were prent at urt throughout the trial — exulted and shed tears of joy.

ED SHEERAN WS COPYRIGHT CASE OVER MARV GAYE’S ‘LET’S GET IT ON’

“I’m really grateful, ” said Janis Gaye, Marv’s former wife and the mother of Nona and Frankie Gaye.

”A rrectn was ma onMarch 13, 2015: An article on Wednday about the pyright gement trial volvg the song “Blurred L” referred imprecisely to the damag award to the fay of Marv Gaye. A jury Los Angel cid Tuday that Rob Thicke (left) and Pharrell Williams lifted parts of Marv Gaye's 1977 h "Got To Give It Up.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND ROB THICKE TO PAY $7.4M TO MARV GAYE'S FAY OVER BLURRED L

A Los Angel jury has termed that sgers Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke lifted portns of Marv Gaye's 1977 h "Got to Give It Up" when wrg their h "Blurred L. At the time, there was much speculatn about the siari between Gaye's classic and the new song. A jury award Marv Gaye's children nearly $7.

4 ln Tuday after termg sgers Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams pied their father's mic to create "Blurred L, " the biggt h song of Gaye's dghter Nona Gaye wept as the verdict was beg read and was hugged by her attorney, Richard Bch. "Right now, I feel ee, " Nona Gaye said after the verdict.

"An attorney for Thicke and Williams has said a cisn favor of Gaye's heirs uld have a chillg effect on micians who try to emulate an era or another artist's Gay' lawyer brand Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond tryg to emulate the sound of Gaye's late-1970s mic and pied the R&B legend's h "Got to Give It Up" outright. "They fought this fight spe every odd beg agast them, " Bch said of the Gaye fay outsi told jurors he didn't wre "Blurred L, " which Williams ttified he crafted about an hour mid-2012. Williams told jurors that Gaye's mic was part of the soundtrack of his youth.