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

Contents:

• PHARRELL WILLIAMS TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON 'ELLEN'
• PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND ROB THICKE TO PAY $7.4M TO MARV GAYE'S FAY OVER BLURRED L
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• PHARRELL WILLIAMS DENI MARV GAYE’S FAY’S ACCATNS OF PERJURY
• MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS COURT THAT PHARRELL WILLIAMS COMMTED PERJURY

PHARRELL WILLIAMS TALKS GAY MARRIAGE ON 'ELLEN'

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

After a five-year-long legal back-and-forth, a judge has termed that Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke, the artists behd the 2013 mega h “Blurred L, ” mt pay the fay of the late Marv Gaye $5 ln, multiple outlets report. The pair was sued for pyright gement bee of the song’s siari to Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” om 1977, CNN reports. In 2015, a judge led Williams, 45, and Thicke, 41, owed Gaye’s tate $7 ln, but after they appealed, the judgment — om U.

Gaye’s fay will also earn 50 percent of “Blurred L” royalti the future.

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

In 2015, a judge first led that Williams and Thicke pied Gaye’s song. “No one n claim they own the style or the genre of Marv Gaye, ” attorney Howard Kg said at the time, acrdg to the Associated Prs. A jury award Marv Gaye’s children nearly $7.

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

4m on 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. ”The verdict uld tarnish the legacy of Williams, a reliable h-maker who has won Grammy awards and appears on NBC’s mic petn show The 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. But the seven-time Grammy wner said he didn’t e any of to create Blurred ’s children – Nona, Frankie and Marv Gaye III – sued the sgers 2013 and were prent when the verdict was verdict may face years of appeals.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS DENI MARV GAYE’S FAY’S ACCATNS OF PERJURY

It earned a Grammy nomatn and ted Williams and Thicke lns of se was a stggle between two of mic’s biggt nam: Williams has sold more than 100m rerds worldwi durg his reer as a sger-producer, and Gaye performed hs such as Sexual Healg and How Sweet It Is (To be Loved by You) rema closg arguments, Bch acced Thicke and Williams of lyg about how the song was created.

MARV GAYE FAY CLAIMS COURT THAT PHARRELL WILLIAMS COMMTED PERJURY

He told jurors they uld award Gaye’s children lns of dollars if they termed the pyright to Got to Give It Up was Kg, lead attorney for Williams and Thicke, told the panel that a verdict favor of the Gaye fay would have a chillg effect on micians who were tryg to recreate a genre or homage to another artist’s nied there were any substantial siari between Blurred L and the sheet mic Gaye submted to obta pyright protectn. Williams, 41, also signed a document statg he didn’t e any other artists’ work the mic and would be rponsible if a succsful pyright claim was ttified he wasn’t prent when the song was wrten, spe receivg trial foced on tailed analys of chords and not both Blurred L and Got to Give It repeatedly heard the upbeat song Blurred L and saw snippets of s mic vio, but Gaye’s mic was reprented durg the trial a ls polished form.

Jurors did not hear Got to Give It Up as Gaye rerd , but rather a versn created based solely on sheet mic submted to ga pyright versn lacked many of the elements – cludg Gaye’s voice – that helped make the song a h 1977. Bch risively lled the versn ed urt a “Frankenste-like monster” that didn’t accurately reprent Gaye’s expert for the Gaye fay said there were eight distct elements om Got to Give It Up that were ed Blurred L, but an expert for Williams and Thicke nied those siari died April 1984, leavg his children the pyrights to his siar are Blurred L and Got to Give Up?