Got To Give $7.4 Milln Up: Jury Fds Pharrell And Thicke Copied Marv Gaye Song : The Two-Way : NPR

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• JURY FDS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG FOR BLURRED LJURY FDS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG FOR BLURRED L
• BLURRED L SE: ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS PLAGIARIZED MARV GAYE SONG, JURY FDS
• JURY FDS ROB THICKE, PHARRELL RIPPED OFF MARV GAYE SONG 'BLURRED L'
• GOT TO GIVE $7.4 MILLN UP: JURY FDS PHARRELL AND THICKE COPIED MARV GAYE SONG
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• MARV GAYE’S ESTATE. V. ROB THICKE
• BLURRED L: MARV GAYE'S FAY KEEPS $5M PAYOUT
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS PIED OM MARV GAYE BLURRED L, URT NFIRMS

JURY FDS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG FOR BLURRED LJURY FDS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG FOR BLURRED L

Jury fds Rob Thicke and Pharrell pied a Marv Gaye song for Blurred L / Gaye fay award $7. Source Associated Prs Mar 10, 2015, 10:06 PM UTC|Share this storyRob Thicke and Pharrell pied a classic Marv Gaye song while wrg their 2013 h "Blurred L, " a jury found this afternoon. Acrdg to the Associated Prs, Gay' children are beg award $7.

I., who appeared on the track, did not ge on Gaye's pyright.

The Gaye fay is now askg for an junctn on sal of "Blurred L, " acrdg to The Wrap's Pamela 's fay sued after noticg siari to their father's song the 2013 h. Thicke had argued that he was too high and dnk to have pied Gaye, let alone legimately ntribute to the track.

BLURRED L SE: ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS PLAGIARIZED MARV GAYE SONG, JURY FDS

There's no hidg that micians often emulate sounds om the past, but Gaye's lawyers argued that Thicke's song went que a b further than that, reportedly posg that parts of Gaye's song appeared all but two bars of "Blurred L. 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. “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.

JURY FDS ROB THICKE, PHARRELL RIPPED OFF MARV GAYE SONG 'BLURRED L'

“Thkg Out Loud”Ed Sheeran“Let’s Get It On”Marv GayeWhat were the trial’s highlights? ”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.

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.

GOT TO GIVE $7.4 MILLN UP: JURY FDS PHARRELL AND THICKE COPIED MARV GAYE SONG

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. A jury award Marv Gaye's children nearly $7.

4 ln US 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.

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

"They're unwaverg their absolute nvictn that they wrote this song penntly, " he and Williams earned more than $7 ln apiece on the song, acrdg to has said a cisn favour of Gaye's heirs uld have a chillg effect on micians who try to emulate an era or another artist's Iser, an tellectual property attorney who has reprented numero micians pyright s, was cril of the oute. "Unfortunately, today's jury verdict has blurred the l between protectable elements of a mil posn and the unprotectable mil style or groove exemplified by Marv Gaye, " Iser said.

"Although Gaye was the Prce of Soul, he didn't own a pyright to the genre, and Thicke and Williams' homage to the feel of Marv Gaye is not gg. "The 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.

MARV GAYE’S ESTATE. V. ROB THICKE

Pharrell Williams told jurors that Marv Gaye's mic was part of the soundtrack of his youth. (Nick Ut/Associated Prs)"They fought this fight spe every odd beg agast them, " Bch said of the Gaye fay outsi urt. Williams told jurors that Gaye's mic was part of the soundtrack of his youth.

BLURRED L: MARV GAYE'S FAY KEEPS $5M PAYOUT

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 more than 7.

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

It earned a Grammy Awards nomatn and ted Williams and Thicke lns of se was a stggle between two of mic's biggt nam: Williams has sold more than 100 ln 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 Gaye's dghter, Nona Gaye, left, and his ex-wife, Janis Hunter, take qutns om the media outsi Los Angel U.

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 favour 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 says wasn't prent when song wrtenThicke 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 UpJurors 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.