How Siar Is ‘Blurred L’ To A 1977 Marv Gaye H? – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE
• HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?
• GAYE VS. THICKE: HOW BLURRED ARE THE L OF PYRIGHT GEMENT?
• "BLURRED L": EL PLAG LA NCIóN POR EL QUE PHARRELL WILLIAMS Y ROB THICKE TENDRáN QUE PAGAR US$5 LON A LA FAIA MARV GAYE
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'

MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE

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. 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.

HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?

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.

“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.

GAYE VS. THICKE: HOW BLURRED ARE THE L OF PYRIGHT GEMENT?

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. ) They also ced terviews where Thicke said he’d stolen om Gaye, cludg tellg GQ that one of his favore songs was “Got to Give It Up” and that he told Williams that they should wre a song wh the same “groove. 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.

"BLURRED L": EL PLAG LA NCIóN POR EL QUE PHARRELL WILLIAMS Y ROB THICKE TENDRáN QUE PAGAR US$5 LON A LA FAIA MARV GAYE

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.

3 ln judgment agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams for pyg a Marv Gaye song to create their 2013 smash “Blurred L. Circu Court of Appeals said Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up” served “broad” pyright protectn, and the March 2015 jury verdict favor of Gaye’s three children uld stand bee there was “not an absolute absence of evince” of siary between the two songs.

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

Circu Judge Milan Smh also upheld an award of 50 percent of future royalti om “Blurred L” to the Gay.

Who add a verse to “Blurred L, ” should not be had award the Gay $7. And Interspe should be liable, but the appeals urt “Blurred L” se has transfixed the mic dtry, promptg bate over the le between plagiarism and honorg works by popular artists like Gaye, whose songs also clu “I Heard It Through the Grapeve” and “What’s Gog On. ” Gaye was fatally shot by his father 1984 at age 44.

Wednday’s cisn prompted a strong dissent om Circu Judge Jacquele Nguyen, who said the cisn let the Gay “acplish what no one has before: pyright a mil style, ” and expand the potential for further pyright ligatn. “We are thrilled, ” Richard Bch, the Gay’ lawyer, said an terview. ”Two of Gaye’s children, Frankie and Nona, lled the cisn “a victory for the rights of all micians.

”Williams, whose songs also clu “Happy, ” admted urt to beg a Gaye fan sce childhood but said “Blurred L” and “Got to Give Up” were siar genre has terviews acknowledged drawg on Gaye’s song but mataed sworn statements that he exaggerated his ntributn to “Blurred L. ”The se is Williams et al v Gaye et al, 9th U. 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.

Stevie Wonr told the Gaye fay not to waste s money. But when the Marv Gaye tate was victor s claim that the Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams song “Blurred L” had ged the pyright of Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up, ” sent rippl through the mic dtry. This is why, like many others, I never believed the Gaye tate would w.

Still, while ncedg that “Blurred L” did not py any of Gaye’s melodi or lyrics, the urt neverthels led that the siary of the “feel” of the rhythm sectn was sufficient grounds for a cisn of pyright gement.