The nsolidated appeals stemmed om a jury's fdg that Pharrell Williams, Rob Thicke, and Clifford Harris, Jr.'s song "Blurred L," the world's btsellg sgle 2013, ged Frankie Christian Gaye, Nona Marvisa Gaye, and ...
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- WILLIAMS V. GAYE, NO. 15-56880 (9TH CIR. 2018)
- WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG
- WILLIAM GAYE
- WILLIAMS V. GAYE
- WILLIE GAY JR.
WILLIAMS V. GAYE, NO. 15-56880 (9TH CIR. 2018)
The nsolidated appeals stemmed om a jury's fdg that Pharrell Williams, Rob Thicke, and Clifford Harris, Jr.'s song "Blurred L," the world's btsellg sgle 2013, ged Frankie Christian Gaye, Nona Marvisa Gaye, and Marv Gaye III's pyright Marv Gaye's 1977 h song "Got To Give It Up." The Nth Circu affirmed part and reversed part the district urt's judgment. The panel held that "Got To Give It Up" was entled to broad pyright protectn bee mil posns were not nfed to a narrow range of exprsn; the panel accepted, whout cidg, the mers of the district urt's lg that the spe of fendants' pyright was limed, unr the Copyright Act of 1909, to the sheet mic posed wh the Copyright Office, and did not extend to sound rerdgs; the district urt's orr nyg summary judgment was not reviewable after a full trial on the mers; the district urt did not err nyg a new trial; the district urt did not abe s discretn admtg portns of expert ttimony; the verdict was not agast the clear weight of the evince; the awards of actual damag and profs and the district urt's nng royalty were proper; the district urt erred overturng the jury's general verdict favor of Harris and the Interspe Parti; the district urt did not abe s discretn nyg the Gay' motn for attorney's fe; and the district urt did not abe s discretn apportng sts among the parti. * william gaye *
Gaye, No. 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. 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.
WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG
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’s song “Blurred L, ” the world’s btsellg sgle 2013, ged Frankie Christian Gaye, Nona Marvisa Gaye, and Marv Gaye III’s pyright Marv Gaye’s 1977 h song “Got To Give It Up.
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The panel held that “Got To Give It Up” was entled to broad pyright protectn bee mil posns were not nfed to a narrow range of exprsn; the panel accepted, whout cidg, the mers of the district urt’s lg that the spe of fendants’ pyright was limed, unr the Copyright Act of 1909, to the sheet mic posed wh the Copyright Office, and did not extend to sound rerdgs; the district urt’s orr nyg summary judgment was not reviewable after a full trial on the mers; the district urt did not err nyg a new trial; the district urt did not abe s discretn admtg portns of expert ttimony; the verdict was not agast the clear weight of the evince; the awards of actual damag and profs and the district urt’s nng royalty were proper; the district urt erred overturng the jury’s general verdict favor of Harris and the Interspe Parti; the district urt did not abe s discretn nyg the Gay’ motn for attorney’s fe; and the district urt did not abe s discretn apportng sts among the parti. Gaye” on Jtia Law. Create acuntENFully supportedEnglish (Uned Stat)Partially supportedFrançais (Canada)Français (France)Dtsch (Dtschland)हिंदी (भारत)Italiano (Italia)Português (Brasil)Español (España)Español (Méxi)Use appBgraphyIMDbProDirectorIMDbProStarmeterSee rankWilliam Gaye is known for La Statn Experimentale (2020).
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Possible nnectns via phone numbers - Landon Wilson, Chad Carroll, Jacquele A Gaye. Spl Nth Circu panel upholds jury verdict fdg 2013 h song “Blurred L” ged the mil posn pyright of Marv Gaye’s 1970s song “Got To Give It Up” and affirms district urt’s nial of Gaye’s heirs’ applitn for attorneys’ fe, but restat the jury verdict clearg a rap ntributor to the song and an owner of the master rerdg. After hearg “Blurred L, ” the 2013 bt-sellg sgle wrten and rerd by Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke, fay members of Marv Gaye who had hered the pyrights his mil posns believed that the song ged Gaye’s 1976 h “Got To Give It Up.
” The Gay ma an gement mand, but, after negotiatns failed, Williams and Thicke filed su California feral urt seekg a claratory judgment of non-gement. The Gay unterclaimed allegg pyright gement and add Clifford Harris, Jr., monly known as the rapper T. The jury found that Williams and Thicke had ged the Gay’ pyright “Got To Give It Up, ” but that Harris and Interspe were not liable for gement.
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The jury award the Gay $7. The district urt also overturned the jury’s verdict favor of Harris and Interspe as nsistent wh the fdg of liabily, apportned sts between the parti, and nied the Gay’ motn for attorneys’ fe. Ultimately, the district urt award the Gay $3, 188, 527.
The Gay appealed the orr on attorneys’ fe and sts, and also lodged a “protective” appeal, argug that, the event the jury verdict is overturned and a new trial tak place, the jury should be permted to listen to the mercially-released rerdg of “Got To Give It Up, ” and not jt a rendn of the sheet mic that had been posed wh the pyright office.