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• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE SONGS, HAS 'FIXATN' ON LATE SGER
• MARV GAYE’S ESTATE SU ROB THICKE FOR ‘BLURRED L’ AND MORE
• MARV GAYE’S ESTATE. V. ROB THICKE
• WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG
• MARV GAYE TATE VS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS
• PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
• ROB THICKE, YOU’RE NO MARV GAYE
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND ROB THICKE TO PAY $7.4M TO MARV GAYE'S FAY OVER BLURRED L
• ‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
• ROB THICKE’S ‘BLURRED L’ VS. MARV GAYE: THE WAR OVER SUMMER’S SONG
• MARV GAYE’S FAY SU ROB THICKE OVER ‘BLURRED L’

ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'

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.

Addnally, The Gaye fay is entled to receive prejudgment tert on the damag award and rpective profs agast each of them, which totals to $9097. The Gaye fay is also entled to royalti gog forward for 50 percent of the songwrer and publishg revenue g om “Blurred L. Rob Thicke, Pharrell Williams to pay $5 ln to Marv Gaye tate for 'Blurred L'The five-year legal battle has end wh a verdict favor of Mart Gaye's tate, who sued claimg "Blurred L" pied Gaye's "Got To Give It Up"Sger Pharrell Williams and sger Rob Thicke perform together Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 6, Wilkg / Rters fileDec.

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

13, 2018, 8:24 PM UTCThe long drawn-out pyright battle over Rob Thicke’s 2013 song “Blurred L” has end after a judge orred Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay almost $5 ln to Marv Gaye’s tate the se’s fal lg.

6 lg, a judge the Central District of California reaffirmed the March lg, clarg Thicke, Williams, and More Water From Nazareth Publishg mt pay Gaye’s tate $2. Was cleared of any liabily March, a cisn upheld this last and fal Gaye tate was also reward half of the song’s nng royalti om after the urt’s origal judgment date, and tert of 0.

In 2016, more than 200 micians, cludg Jennifer Hudson and Hans Zimmer, filed an amic brief support of Thicke and Williams appeal, claimg the verdict would be “very dangero” to the mic the Gaye fay first filed their lawsu, other high-profile artists like Lana Del Rey and Mark Ronson have been siarly KslenBen Kslen is a reporter for NBC News.

MARV GAYE’S ESTATE SU ROB THICKE FOR ‘BLURRED L’ AND MORE

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.

" 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.

MARV GAYE’S ESTATE. V. ROB THICKE

" 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 also acce Thicke of "cludg the siar bridge and intil lyrics om Marv Gaye's 'I Want You' (his) siarly-themed work, 'Make U Love Me.

'" 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. 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. 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.

WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG

“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.

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.

MARV GAYE TATE VS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS

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.

PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS

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. “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.

ROB THICKE, YOU’RE NO MARV GAYE

“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. The Gaye tate, which reprents the sger’s children Frankie and Nona, fired back two months later, claimg Thicke had pilfered not only “Got to Give It Up” but also Gaye’s “After the Dance” and “I Want You” on Thicke’s 2011 album Love After War. The fay alleged at the time that the Canadian sger had a “Marv Gaye fixatn” and acced the publisher of Gaye’s songs, EMI, of not protectg the soul in’s talogue sce had fold to Sony ATV, which manag Thicke’s mic.

) They also ced terviews where Thicke said he’d stolen om Gaye, cludg tellg GQ that one of his favore songs was “Got to Give It Up” and that he told Williams that they should wre a song wh the same “groove.

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 songs. – 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. ” 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.

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

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 Reporter.

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

In 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 also acce Thicke of “cludg the siar bridge and intil lyrics om Marv Gaye’s ‘I Want You’ [his] siarly-themed work, ‘Make U Love Me.

ROB THICKE’S ‘BLURRED L’ VS. MARV GAYE: THE WAR OVER SUMMER’S SONG

The 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. 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.

Gaye’s fay quote crics who have claimed to hear a remblance between the songs reviews for Rollg Stone and The New York Tim.

MARV GAYE’S FAY SU ROB THICKE OVER ‘BLURRED L’

In a recent se Marv Gaye’s fay sued Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams for their song “Blurred L, ” claimg that the song was a pyright gement on Gaye’s 1977 tune “Got to Give Up.

” The se turned out to be one of the most important s recent history, wh a shockg lg favor of Gaye’s fay awardg them “$4 ln pyright damag pl profs attributable to gement, ” and the procs sendg a msage to everyone the mic dtry that emulatg someone, and beg spired by another artist, n be nsired gement (Gardner).