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- PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND ROB THICKE TO PAY $7.4M TO MARV GAYE'S FAY OVER BLURRED L
- PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
- MARV GAYE TATE VS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS
- WILLIAMS V. GAYE, NO. 15-56880 (9TH CIR. 2018)
- MARV GAYE’S ESTATE. V. ROB THICKE
- MARV GAYE’S ESTATE SU ROB THICKE FOR ‘BLURRED L’ AND MORE
- ROB THICKE & PHARRELL WILLIAMS -- GOT TO GIVE IT UP TO MARV GAYE'S FAY ... JURY RUL 'BLURRED L' WAS A RIP-OFF
PHARRELL WILLIAMS AND ROB THICKE TO PAY $7.4M TO MARV GAYE'S FAY OVER BLURRED L
Marv Gaye fay's pyright gement lawsu agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams ends $5 ln judgment. * robin thicke pharrell marvin gaye *
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.
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.
PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
Jury cis Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke pied 1977 h Got to Give It Up lawsu filed by Gaye’s children * robin thicke pharrell marvin gaye *
A jury award Marv Gaye’s children nearly $7. 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.
MARV GAYE TATE VS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS
Rob Thicke has lost the "Blurred L" lawsu he has been engaged wh the Marv Gaye tate. * robin thicke pharrell marvin gaye *
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.
WILLIAMS V. GAYE, NO. 15-56880 (9TH CIR. 2018)
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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. 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?
MARV GAYE’S ESTATE. V. ROB THICKE
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. * robin thicke pharrell marvin gaye *
Marv Gaye tate ws $7.
UPDATE: A lawyer for the tate of Marv Gaye tells Rollg Stone that he will try to block all future sal of “Blurred L” until an agreement is reached. Rob Thicke noticeably ripped off Marv Gaye‘s 1977 h “Got to Give It Up” when he wrote the smash h “Blurred L” wh Pharrell Williams and T. He and -songwrer Pharrell Williams mt pay Gaye’s fay $7.
MARV GAYE’S ESTATE SU ROB THICKE FOR ‘BLURRED L’ AND MORE
A se that mak look towards the future... Jt as the tle of the song suggts, sometim l get blurred. In a recent se Marv Gaye’s fay sued Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams for their song “Blurred L,” claimg that the song was a pyright gement on Gaye’s 1977 tune “Got to Give … * robin thicke pharrell marvin gaye *
The verdict puts to rt over a year’s worth of legal back and forth between Thicke and Gaye’s tate, which the latter sought $25 ln damag. A reprentative for Gaye’s tate was not immediately available for ment.
The cisn, which hged on the fact that Gaye’s fay owned only elements of the sheet mic to “Got to Give It Up, ” me om eight jurors who listened to ttimony om milogists, as well as Thicke and Williams. Marv Gaye’s children, Nona, Frankie and Marv Gaye III, will receive $4 ln damag and $3.
ROB THICKE & PHARRELL WILLIAMS -- GOT TO GIVE IT UP TO MARV GAYE'S FAY ... JURY RUL 'BLURRED L' WAS A RIP-OFF
Su alleg Thicke also plagiarized Gaye's track 'After the Dance' * robin thicke pharrell marvin gaye *
“I’m really grateful, ” Janis Gaye, Marv’s former wife and the mother of Nona and Frankie and stepmother of Marv Gaye III, told the Tim. Rpond to threats of legal actn by the Gaye tate and publisher Bridgeport Mic by preemptively sug them, along wh Funkalic, claimg “Blurred L” was “strikgly different” than “Got to Give It Up” and the latter group’s “Sexy Ways. “In realy, the Gaye fendants are claimg ownership of an entire genre, as opposed to a specific work, and Bridgeport is claimg the same work.
The Gaye tate, which reprents the sger’s children Frankie and Nona, fired back two months later, claimg Thicke had pilfered not only “Got to Give It Up” but also Gaye’s “After the Dance” and “I Want You” on Thicke’s 2011 album Love After War. The fay alleged at the time that the Canadian sger had a “Marv Gaye fixatn” and acced the publisher of Gaye’s songs, EMI, of not protectg the soul in’s talogue sce had fold to Sony ATV, which manag Thicke’s mic.