The posers of the h song “Blurred L”, Rob Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr. (a/k/a T.I.), have menced a lawsu agast Marv Gaye’s fay, as owners of Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up”, and Bridgeport Mic, as owner of Funkalic’s “Sexy Ways”. The plat is for claratory relief, [...]
Contents:
- LISTEN TO THE MASH-UP THAT PROV ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG TO MAKE 'BLURRED L'
- HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?
- MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE
- THE BLURRED L OF COPYRIGHT LAW: ROB THICKE V. MARV GAYE'S ESTATE
- MARV GAYE'S FAY WS 'BLURRED L' APPEAL; PHARRELL, ROB THICKE MT PAY
- BLURRED L: MARV GAYE'S FAY KEEPS $5M PAYOUT
- ROB THICKE’S ‘BLURRED L’ VS. MARV GAYE: THE WAR OVER SUMMER’S SONG
- ‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
LISTEN TO THE MASH-UP THAT PROV ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL PIED A MARV GAYE SONG TO MAKE 'BLURRED L'
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 vs marvin gaye song *
On Tuday, a jury led that sgers Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke pied parts of Marv Gaye's h 1977 song "Got to Give It Up" to create "Blurred L, " and award $7.
3 ln to Gaye's the sgers nied pyg the late Gaye's mic, Gaye's children sued Thicke and Williams, sayg the duo's song ged the pyright of their father's part of the Gay' se, they submted an d mash-up tend to serve as "ncrete mil illtratns of the substantial siari" between "Blurred L" and "Got to Give Up. "This material sounds like a perfect, natural match bee blends sonilly, " says the summary judgment that's not enough, the Gay have two expert milogists scribg eight substantial siari: "(1) the signature phrase the ma vol melodi; (2) the hooks; (3) the hooks wh backup vols; (4) the re theme 'Blurred L' and backup hook 'Got to Give Up'; (5) the backup hooks; (6) the bass melodi; (7) the keyboard parts; and (8) the unual percsn choic.
HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?
Marv Gaye fay's pyright gement lawsu agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams ends $5 ln judgment. * blurred lines vs marvin gaye song *
Will return to Los Angel feral urt on Tuday to fight claims they pied their multiplatum song om Gaye’s 1977 h “Got To Give It Up. The sger’s children Frankie and Nona Gaye rpond wh unterclaims that the micians ged “Got To Give It Up” — and that Thicke and ex-wife Pla Patton pied a send Gaye song, “After The Dance, ” -wrg Thicke’s 2011 track “Love After War. ) as well as experts on mic licensg and revenue, who will speak to the damag the Gay uld claim if they w.
MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE
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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. ” (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.
THE BLURRED L OF COPYRIGHT LAW: ROB THICKE V. MARV GAYE'S ESTATE
The heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, had acced the pop star of pyg “Thkg Out Loud.” * blurred lines vs marvin gaye song *
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.
MARV GAYE'S FAY WS 'BLURRED L' APPEAL; PHARRELL, ROB THICKE MT PAY
A US urt upholds a lg that Rob Thicke pied one of Gaye's songs on his h Blurred L. * blurred lines vs marvin gaye song *
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.
BLURRED L: MARV GAYE'S FAY KEEPS $5M PAYOUT
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. “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.
Hook: Fell pared “Take a good girl” to “Keep on danc’ ” Gaye’s song.
ROB THICKE’S ‘BLURRED L’ VS. MARV GAYE: THE WAR OVER SUMMER’S SONG
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.
‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
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. 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.