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Contents:
- HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?
- MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE
- ‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
- PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
HOW SIAR IS ‘BLURRED L’ TO A 1977 MARV GAYE H?
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 lyrics *
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.
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MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE
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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’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
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 lyrics *
“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.
PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
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. 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.