Composer, arranger, and thor Richard Nil, PhD., talks about the signifince of the pyright claim agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams song “Blurred L” and victor lawsu om the Marv Gaye tate.
Contents:
- HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?
- MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE
- GAYE VS. THICKE: HOW BLURRED ARE THE L OF PYRIGHT GEMENT?
- ‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
- MARV GAYE'S FAY WS 'BLURRED L' APPEAL; PHARRELL, ROB THICKE MT PAY
- WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG
- 'BLURRED L' NTROVERSY RURFAC AS MARV GAYE'S FAY CLAIMS PHARRELL MTED PERJURY
- RULG THAT ‘BLURRED L’ PIED MARV GAYE SONG ROCKS MIC WORLD
HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?
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ImageThe fay of the soul star Marv Gaye (left) sued Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams (right) over their song “Blurred L.
MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE
A feral appeals urt on Wednday upheld a $5.3 ln judgment agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams for pyg a Marv Gaye song to create their 2013 smash "Blurred L." * blurred lines marvin gaye original *
He is acced of pyg passag om Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” (1973); the fay of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s -wrer, filed the su 2017.
GAYE VS. THICKE: HOW BLURRED ARE THE L OF PYRIGHT GEMENT?
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‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
“Blurred L” and Thicke’s overwhelmg succs have been eclipsed by the populary of the recent feral urt se, which a jury cid that s creators ged upon the pyright of Marv Gaye’s 1977 Billboard Hot 100 chart topper, “Got to Give It Up.” * blurred lines marvin gaye original *
”Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams were sued 2013 over their song “Blurred L” by members of Gaye’s fay, who argued that pied his dis-era h “Got to Give It Up. The Gay’ expert poted to a “nstellatn” of var mil elements, which stck many mentators as vague but was enough to persua the jury. The verdict was upheld on appeal, but a dissentg judge said allowed the Gaye tate “to acplish what no one has before: pyright a mil style.
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MARV GAYE'S FAY WS 'BLURRED L' APPEAL; PHARRELL, ROB THICKE MT PAY
The jury found that Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams, who share a songwrg cred on the song, had mted pyright gement, and award more than $7.3 ln to Mr. Gaye’s fay. * blurred lines marvin gaye original *
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In recent motns, Thicke and Williams’ attorneys threw the Gay a pyright curveball wh the argument they don’t own their father’s mercially released rerdgs — they only own the posnal elements the sheet mic “lead sheets.
WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG
Williams v. Gaye: “Blurred L” Appeal Hearg Centers on Admissibily of Evince About Origal Sound Rerdg * blurred lines marvin gaye original *
” (The rerdgs belong to Motown Rerds, which is owned by Universal, which turn owns Interspe — the rerd pany that released Blurred L and a fendant the Gay’ untersu. Judge John Kronstadt agreed a lg January and reaffirmed the lg followg an appeal om the Gay. His cisn enforced that the Marv Gaye rerdgs of “Got To Give It Up” and “After The Dance” uldn’t be heard urt — the attorneys are only g stripped-down stmentals.
But more importantly, the cisn means that cidg whether gement occurred, the jury will only nsir whether “Blurred L” and “Love After War” borrow excsively om what’s the Gay’ lead sheets. The Gay’ attorneys argue that what’s left — the lyrics, the vol melody, the keyboard le and the bass — still remble Thicke’s songs enough to say they’re gement. On Thursday and Friday, the Gaye fay’s attorney Richard Bch lled a pair of milogists to the stand, and the urtroom beme a urse on mic theory wh their ttimoni on what they hear mon between the posns.
'BLURRED L' NTROVERSY RURFAC AS MARV GAYE'S FAY CLAIMS PHARRELL MTED PERJURY
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“Signature phrase”: Judh Fell, the Berkeley-ted head of a milogy nsultg firm, labeled one phrase per song the immediately intifiable “signature phrase”: the openg lyrics “I ed to go out to parti” Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up” and the chos opener “And that’s why I’m gon’ take a good girl” “Blurred L.
RULG THAT ‘BLURRED L’ PIED MARV GAYE SONG ROCKS MIC WORLD
A three-judge panel upheld the fdg that the Rob Thicke song ged on the pyright of Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.” * blurred lines marvin gaye original *
The Gay’ other mil expert, Harvard profsor of Ain-Amerin mic Ingrid Monson, argued that Gaye’s bass le and s pairg wh a reggae- or ragtime-fluenced keyboard melody were highly unual Motown mic.
That means ’s hard for Thicke and Williams to claim they were fluenced by the genre general, she said, stead of the Gaye songs specifilly.
Listen to the troductn to Blurred L, by Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams followed by the openg sectn of Marv Gaye's Got to Give Up * blurred lines marvin gaye original *
Le by le, the experts pared lyrics cludg Gaye’s “move up / Turn ’round / Shake down” and Thicke’s “Shake around / Get down / Get up. The rap verse “Blurred L” begs and ends at the same pot the song as the Gaye song’s “parlando” — a lyril chantg Fell scribed as “a precursor to rap.
” The jury looked amed while Bch and Fell pared lyrics om the parlando and the rap verse, cludg pairg Gaye’s “Let me step to/ to your erotic zone” wh a le of T. “Theme X”: Fell intified a short, recurrg melodic le she labeled “theme X, ” heard Gaye’s sung lyrics “dancg lady” unr the ma vol.