Rob Thicke, Pharrell Williams to pay $5 ln to Marv Gaye tate for 'Blurred L'

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• MARV GAYE’S ESTATE REVIV “BLURRED L” LAWSU AFTER PHARRELL’S COMMENTS IN ‘GQ’ INTERVIEW
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• RULG THAT ‘BLURRED L’ PIED MARV GAYE SONG ROCKS MIC WORLD
• HOW MARV GAYE'S NFL TRYOUT CHANGED HIS REER
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MARV GAYE’S ESTATE REVIV “BLURRED L” LAWSU AFTER PHARRELL’S COMMENTS IN ‘GQ’ INTERVIEW

Acrdg to The Hollywood Reporter, Marv Gaye’s fay jt filed a motn for relief, directg California judg’ attentn to Pharrell Williams’ terview wh GQ last month. The lawsu—which was first hand down 2015 and seemgly falized last year—rulted a lg that Rob Thicke’s “Blurred L” stole the “feel” om Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up. Now, the Gaye fay believ Pharrell’s ments durg the GQ terview wh Rick Rub ntradicts what he said durg the posn.

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

Back 2015, The Neptun member claimed: “I did not go the stud wh the tentn of makg anythg feel like, or to sound like, Marv Gaye.

“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. The Gay are lookg to be award $3.

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

Your chords, your melody, and your words—none of them had anythg to do wh [Gaye’s song]. He said: "The thg about Jt and I is that we're spired by a lot of the same sgers - Marv Gaye, Al Green, Stevie Wonr.

Sger Marv Gaye - $3. Last year Marv Gaye’s fay prevailed a lawsu agast Pharrell William and Rob Thicke over “Blurred L”, and Jay-Z and Timbaland beat a su over “Big Pimp‘ ” brought by the heir of an Egyptian poser. 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.

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.

HOW MARV GAYE'S NFL TRYOUT CHANGED HIS REER

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.

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.

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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.

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The product, “Blurred L, ” went on to bee the biggt song of 2013 and brg lns of dollars each for Williams, sger Rob Thicke and the rerd obscure procs — “magic, ” Williams’ attorney lled — and what, if any, part the late soul sger and songwrer Marv Gaye played were the subject of a two-week-long trial a downtown feral urtroom which attorneys, mic experts, valuatn experts and micians argued over the age-old qutn of where spiratn ends and theft Tuday, a feral jury cid that “Blurred L” had pied Gaye’s 1977 chart-topper “Got To Give It Up, ” and found that Williams and Thicke should fork over nearly $7. Gaye’s dghter, Nona, clung to her attorney and sobbed when the verdict was oute uld reverberate throughout the mic dtry, given how prevalent is the bs to draw spiratn, and sometim more, om earlier Sam Smh agreed earlier this year to share royalti om his song “Stay Wh Me” after parisons to Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down, ” the olr mician wrote on his webse that was a “mil accint, ” and sound a sympathetic note: “All my years of songwrg have shown me the thgs n happen. “This may put a se on the Gaye fay’s face, but ’s a dark day for creativy, and the end, this will be a loss for mic fans, ” he said.