Williams v. Gaye: “Blurred L” Appeal Hearg Centers on Admissibily of Evince About Origal Sound Rerdg - Harvard Journal of Law & Technology

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• 'BLURRED L' NTROVERSY RURFAC AS MARV GAYE'S FAY CLAIMS PHARRELL MTED PERJURY
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG
• PHARRELL SAYS ‘BLURRED L’ ‘DIFFERENT’ OM MARV GAYE SONG
• MARV GAYE’S ESTATE REVIV “BLURRED L” LAWSU AFTER PHARRELL’S COMMENTS IN ‘GQ’ INTERVIEW
• PHARRELL DENI ‘BLURRED L’ COPI MARV GAYE: ‘IT’S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT’
• THE BLURRED L OF COPYRIGHT LAW: ROB THICKE V. MARV GAYE'S ESTATE
• MARV GAYE'S FAY CONSIRG 'HAPPY' AFTER 'BLURRED L' W
• PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS PIED OM MARV GAYE BLURRED L, URT NFIRMS

'BLURRED L' NTROVERSY RURFAC AS MARV GAYE'S FAY CLAIMS PHARRELL MTED PERJURY

Legal saga wh Marv Gaye's fay nclus wh fal judgment.

Marv Gaye fay's pyright gement lawsu agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams ends $5 ln judgment. 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. Are jotly required to pay Gaye’s fay.

97 to the Gaye fay. 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.

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

The Gaye fay is also entled to royalti gog forward for 50 percent of the songwrer and publishg revenue g om “Blurred L. The long pyright lawsu over Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke's "Blurred L, " and whether ripped off Marv Gaye's "Got to Give It Up, " reared s head aga after supposedly ncludg 2018.

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

On Friday, Gaye's fay filed a motn feral urt allegg Williams lied unr oath the se.

The motn pots to a November GQ terview which the "Happy" sger told producer Rick Rub he "reverse engeered" Gaye's tune. " Gaye's fay argu this statement shows Williams mted perjury durg his posn the pyright se, when he stated: "I did not go the stud wh the tentn of makg anythg feel like, or to sound like, Marv Gaye.

PHARRELL SAYS ‘BLURRED L’ ‘DIFFERENT’ OM MARV GAYE SONG

(Photo by Josh Brasted/FilmMagic) Cred: Josh Brasted/FilmMagic "The admissns are irrencilable wh Williams's repeated, sworn ttimony this actn that: neher 'Got To' nor Marv Gaye ever entered his md while creatg 'Blurred, ' that he did not try to make 'Blurred' feel like 'Got To' or sound like Marv Gaye, " the Gaye fay's motn reads, argug this nstut "a d on this Court. " The Gay are now urgg California Judge John A.

MARV GAYE’S ESTATE REVIV “BLURRED L” LAWSU AFTER PHARRELL’S COMMENTS IN ‘GQ’ INTERVIEW

"Nothg was more central to this se than whether 'Got To' or Marv Gaye was on Williams's md while he was engaged creatg 'Blurred. " In 2015, a jury found Williams and Thicke liable for pyright gement, and an appeals urt upheld the lg 2018, wh Judge Kronstadt awardg damag and half of all future royalti for "Blurred L" to the Gaye fay.

The cisn was highly ntroversial, wh many micians argug the song was an homage to Gaye rather than a ripoff. " Related ntent: 'Blurred L' pyright su ends: Rob Thicke, Pharrell Williams to pay $5 lnInsi Marv Gaye's never-released 1972 album You're the Man. 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.

PHARRELL DENI ‘BLURRED L’ COPI MARV GAYE: ‘IT’S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT’

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.

Members of Gaye’s fay sued Thicke and Williams, along wh rapper and featured artist on the song, T. I., 2013 for pyright gement of Gaye’s 1977 h song “Got to Give It Up. ”In 2015, the Gaye fay won their se.

The urt orred Thicke and Williams to pay Gaye’s tate more than $7 ln dollars, an amount that was later rced to $5.

THE BLURRED L OF COPYRIGHT LAW: ROB THICKE V. MARV GAYE'S ESTATE

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. 76 ln dollars, while Williams and his publishg pany mt each pay Gaye’s tat separate rewards of $357, 630. 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. 'Blurred L' song pied Marv Gaye. A five-year legal battle over the pyright of the h song “Blurred L” has end wh Marv Gaye’s fay beg award a fal judgment of nearly $5 ln agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams.

The pair had been acced of pyright gement for their 2013 sgle bee of the siari to Gaye’s 1977 h “Got to Give It Up. Gaye died 1984 after beg shot to ath by his father, Marv Gay Sr.

MARV GAYE'S FAY CONSIRG 'HAPPY' AFTER 'BLURRED L' W

Thicke and Williams were orred 2015 to pay Gaye’s tate more than $7 ln, but that judgment was rced to $5. Kronstadt California, Thicke, Williams and Williams’ More Water From Nazareth Publishg are jotly required to pay Gaye’s fay damag of nearly $2.

7 ln and Williams and his publishg pany mt pay $357, 631 separate awards to Gaye’s tate. The lg also award Gaye’s fay prejudgment tert on the damag and 50% percent of the royalti om “Blurred L” movg forward.

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

In the 2015 trial urt proceedgs, the jury renred a verdict fdg Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke liable for pyright gement, based on the “substantial siary” of their song “Blurred L” to the 1977 Marv Gaye h “Got To Give It Up. 4 ln dollars to Gaye’s heirs.

” Gaye’s rerdg was released 1977, when sound rerdgs were not protected by the then-effective Copyright Act of 1909; only the pyright the origal posn was protectable.

In 2015, Profsor Jennifer Jenks of De Law School poted out that “[m]any of the featur that make the songs sound siar—cludg the falsetto and the e of a wbell to provi rhythmic accents—were not part of Gaye’s posn. Gaye’s attorney, Lisa Shiavo, rejected the “flawed premise” that the jury uld only nsir the sheet mic.

ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS PIED OM MARV GAYE BLURRED L, URT NFIRMS

Bee Gaye never wrote the song down and the lead sheet was later prepared by a transcriber, she argued, the origal rerdg was the bt evince of Gaye’s pyright the posn. Late last year, a five-year legal battle over the pyright of the song end the fay of Marv Gaye beg award $5 ln.

Williams and Thicke had been acced of pyright gement due to the song’s siari to Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.

”It’s also unr fire om listeners who say the song rips off “Got to Give It Up, ” the 1977 R&B jam by Marv Gaye that, like “Blurred L, ” promently featur a slky bass le and the clang of a surprisgly, perhaps, Thicke Unexpected mil llaboratnsLast month, he, Pharrell and the song’s other creator, rapper T.