Marv Gaye's fay says Pharrell mted perjury Blurred L su |

Contents:

• MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE
• ‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL
• RULG THAT ‘BLURRED L’ PIED MARV GAYE SONG ROCKS MIC WORLD
• MARV GAYE'S FAY WS 'BLURRED L' APPEAL; PHARRELL, ROB THICKE MT PAY
• ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
• PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS
• ‘BLURRED L’ LAWSU: MARV GAYE FAY NOW CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE TWO SONGS (EXCLIVE)
• BLURRED L SE: ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS PLAGIARIZED MARV GAYE SONG, JURY FDS
• 'BLURRED L' NTROVERSY RURFAC AS MARV GAYE'S FAY CLAIMS PHARRELL MTED PERJURY
• THIS IS HOW PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE LOST THAT 'BLURRED L' LAWSUMTV NEWS ASKED THE EXPERTS TO BREAK {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MICBY BRENNA EHRLICHMARCH 11, 2015/4:32 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}KEV MAZUR/GETTY IMAGBY BRENNA EHRLICHMARCH 11, 2015 / 4:32 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THIS IS HOW PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE LOST THAT 'BLURRED L' LAWSU","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-03-11T20:32:05.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-03-11T20:32:05.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"BRENNA EHRLICH","KEYWORDS":"R & B SOUL, POP MIC","ARTICLESECTN":"MIC"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS ARE MULLG THEIR LEGAL OPTNS OVER A JURY CISN THAT WILL FORCE THEM TO GIVE MARV GAYE'S CHILDREN A $7.4 LN PAYOUT, WE’VE BEEN WRTLG WH SOME QUTNS OF OUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID PHARRELL AND THICKE’S H “BLURRED L” REALLY PY GAYE'S 1977 SONG "GOT TO GIVE IT UP"? AND IF, AS THE CISN SUGGTS, THE PAIR DIDN’T LIBERATELY GE ON THE LATE CROONER'S TUNE, THEN WHY ARE THEY LIABLE? AND IF THE L BETWEEN SPIRATN AND GEMENT ARE SO, UM, BLURRED, SHOULD THE MIC DTRY CURRENTLY BE EAKG OUT ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CREATIVY?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MTV NEWS TURNED TO THE EXPERTS TO EXPLA THIS WHOLE MS, BEGNG WH HOW THE GAYE TATE ME OUT ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MILOGISTS DEEMED THE SONGS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN YOU'RE ALG WH A PYRIGHT GEMENT SE, YOU START BY LISTENG TO THE TWO WORKS QUTN AND CI WHETHER OR NOT THEY SOUND SIAR, ACRDG TO ATTORNEY BRIAN D. CAPLAN OF RELER KAILAS & ROSENBLATT LLC. IF THE PIEC SOUND ALIKE -- TO THE AVERAGE PERSON -- YOU BRG MILOGISTS TO EXPLA WHY THERE ARE THOSE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THIS SE, THE GAY ULDN'T PLAY "GOT TO GIVE IT UP" URT BEE THE FAY ONLY HELD RIGHTS TO THE SHEET MIC BUT, THE END, THE JURY HEARD A STRIPPED-DOWN VERSN OF THE PIECE, ACRDG TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, AND BROUGHT MILOGISTS WHO EMED ELEMENTS OF THE SONGS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR THE JURY TO SAY, 'HEY, THIS SONG SOUNDS SUBSTANTIALLY SIAR TO 'BLURRED L,' HAS PONENTS SIAR TO -- NOT THE ENTIRE SONG, PONENTS -- THAT SOUND SUBSTANTIALLY SIAR TO PONENTS OM THE MARV GAYE SONG AS S SHOWN ON THE SHEET MIC," CAPLAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, BASILLY, THE JURY LISTENED TO THEIR EARS -- AND TO THE EXPERTS -- AND CID THAT PHARRELL AND THICKE HAD CRIBBED OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT THAT DON'T MEAN THE SONGS ARE ACTUALLY THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MILOGISTS THAT WERE LLED OFFERED THEIR PROFSNAL OPNS, BUT OTHER EXPERTS WOULD DISAGREE -- LIKE JOE BENT, PROFSOR OF POPULAR MIC AND DEAN OF SCHOOL OF MIC & PERFORMG ARTS, BATH SPA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I’VE BEEN FOLLOWG THIS SE SCE THE FIRST ACCATNS OF PYG ME TO LIGHT OCTOBER 2013," BENT TOLD MTV NEWS. "THE ISSUE ISN’T WHETHER THICKE AND PHARRELL WERE FLUENCED BY GAYE -- THEY ADMTED AS MUCH AT THE TIME. RATHER, THE PROBLEM IS THAT NO PART OF THE ACTUAL POSN HAS BEEN PIED. THERE ARE NO MELODIC SECTNS, CHORD SEQUENC OR LYRICS OM 'GOT TO GIVE IT UP' THAT APPEAR 'BLURRED L.' "{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"IF I'D BEEN A FLY ON THE WALL OF THAT JURY ROOM, I WOULD HAVE BUZZED PRETTY LOUDLY," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, YOU KNOW, THE GAY MAY HAVE WON, BUT THAT DON'T MEAN EVERYONE THKS THEY SHOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHY THE CASE WENT TO TRIAL IN THE FIRST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOT A LOT OF PYRIGHT S ACTUALLY MAKE TO TRIAL, ACRDG TO CAPLAN -- "OR THEY GET KICKED OUT MOTN PRACTICE ONT OF A JUDGE, BEE A LOT OF S ARE BROUGHT FOR NON-PROTECTABLE SUBJECT MATTER," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS SE, THE END, GOT TO TRIAL BEE BACK OCTOBER 2014, A CALIFORNIA JUDGE FOUND THE SONGS SIAR ENOUGH TO PROCEED WH THE FAY'S CLAIM. ALSO, BOTH SIS KEPT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOME S ARE ALSO MORE LIKELY TO SETTLE, ACRDG TO CAPLAN, IF THE GEMENT IS KD OF AN ACCINT -- SOMETHG LLED SUBLIMAL GEMENT. THAT MAY SOUND FANCY, BUT 'S BASILLY WHEN YOU HEAR A SONG, TUCK AWAY YOUR BRA UNNSCLY, THEN E ELEMENTS OF WHEN WRG YOUR OWN SONG. THICKE AND PHARRELL ULDN'T REALLY CLAIM SUBLIMAL GEMENT -- AND WE DOUBT THEY WOULD WANT TO -- BEE THEY'RE PRETTY OPENLY SPOKEN ABOUT BEG SPIRED BY GAYE ON THAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}QUTN ROUND: SO WHAT EFFECT WILL THIS CASE HAVE ON FUTURE CAS?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY EAKG OUT ABOUT WHAT THIS SE WILL DO TO THE FUTURE OF CREATIVY. "WHAT WORRI ME ABOUT THIS JUDGEMENT IS THE PRECENT SETS," BENT TOLD MTV NEWS. "ALL ART IS FLUENCED BY OTHER ART, AND GENR OF MIC EVOLVE BEE OF CLTERS OF DIVIDUAL SONGS THAT HAVE MIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE WE ULD TOTALLY SEE ARTISTS GETTG GUN-SHY AFTER THIS JURY CISN, LEGALLY THERE'S NOT REALLY MUCH TO WORRY ABOUT -- AT LEAST ACRDG TO THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"A URT LG SETS A PRECENT -- [BUT] A JURY VERDICT IS ONLY BASED UPON THE FACTS THAT HAVE BEEN ONT OF THE JURY," CAPLAN TOLD . "SO [THE GAYE SE] SETS NO PRECENT. IT'S NOT LIKE THE SUPREME COURT. IT'S NOT LIKE THE HIGHT URT ANY STATE. IT'S NOT LIKE THE TERMEDIATE FERAL URTS. EACH TIME THEY MAKE A CISN, 'S WRTEN THE BOOK AND SETS A PRECENT FOR LAWYERS TO LOOK AT THE FUTURE TO SAY, 'THIS IS THE LAW.' WHEN A JURY BACK WH A VERDICT, 'S A FACTUAL TERMATN, NOT A LEGAL. THEY'VE HEARD THE FACTS AND THEY'VE SAID, 'INGEMENT.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN SHORT: THIS SE ISN'T GOG TO MAKE ANYONE MORE LIG THAN THEY ALREADY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT'S UP WH THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW?REDFERNS/JOSEPH OKPAKOROB {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE TERTG FACT ABOUT PYRIGHT GEMENT? AS MORE AND MORE MIC IS MA, WILL BEE HARR TO PROVE THAT SOMEONE IS CRIBBG OM SOMEONE ELSE -- WHICH ULD BE FORTG FOR THOSE AFOREMENTNED EAKED-OUT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WHEN YOU BRG A PYRIGHT GEMENT SE, YOU HAVE TO DO A SURVEY OF PRR ART, WHICH MEANS PRR SONGS AND THE E THOSE PRR SONGS OF SIAR NOTE PROGRSNS OR SIAR MELODI," CAPLAN SAID. "THE MORE PRR ART YOU FD, THE BETTER OFF YOU ARE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, BASILLY, IF YOU E THE WORD "PARTY!" YOUR CHOS, YOU'RE PROBABLY OK BEE TONS OF OTHER PEOPLE HAVE ED THAT WORD AS SUCH. "THIS SICK BEAT" ON THE OTHER HAND...{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}R & B SOULPOP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• PHARRELL HAS REPORTEDLY BEEN CLEARED FROM HIS MARV GAYE ‘BLURRED L’ PERJURY LAWSU
• ‘BLURRED L’ LAWSU: A DEFIVE HISTORY OF THE SONG’S (MANY) CONTROVERSIYOU KNOW YOU WANT ITTHE SONG OF THE SUMMER, ROB THICKE’S “BLURRED L,” HAS BEEN PABLE SCE WAS RELEASED THIS SUMMER. SO HAVE THE NTROVERSI SURROUNDG . A GUI TO THE BIGGT.ALEC KUBAS-MEYERUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:08PM EDT VEVO STEPHEN COLBERT LLED THE “SONG OF THE SUMMER OF THE CENTURY,” AND EVERY SGLE PERSON WHO TURNED ON A RAD SCE MARCH HAS HAD STUCK THEIR HEAD, VOLUNTARILY OR NOT, AT SOME POT OR ANOTHER. BUT ROB THICKE’S SONG “BLURRED L,” THE WILDLY SUCCSFUL TRACK OM THE WILDLY SUCCSFUL ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME, HAS BEEN AT THE CENTER OF WHAT SEEMS LIKE NSTANT NTROVERSY. THE BIGGT NTROVERSY OF LATE OM A LAWSU FILED BY MARV GAYE’S TATE, ALLEGG THAT THE THICKE’S H PLAGIARIZED OM GAYE’S 1977 SONG “GOT TO GIVE IT UP.” THEY ARE ANGERED BY THICKE’S APPARENT “MARV GAYE FIXATN,” AND WANT TO BE PENSATED FOR .BUT THERE WAS A WHOLE SUMMER OF NTROVERSI THAT PRECED THIS LAWSU. THE ARE THE BIGGT ON: DO THE SONG HAVE “RAPEY” LYRICS? THE DAILY BEAST’S TRICIA ROMANO REALLY KICKED THIS NTROVERSY TO HIGH GEAR. ROMANO WROTE AN ARTICLE ENTLED “‘BLURRED L,’ ROB THICKE’S SUMMER ANTHEM, IS KD OF RAPEY.” THE STICKG POT FOR MANY WAS THE NSTANTLY REPEATED LYRIC “I KNOW YOU WANT ,” WHICH MANY HAVE FOUND OBJECTNABLE, ALTHOUGH SLATE’S JENNIFER LAI AT OM A DIFFERENT ANGLE, “ROB THICKE’S ‘BLURRED L’ IS COCKY, Y. BUT RAPEY? NO.” IT’S AN TERTG PIECE AND BRGS UP SOME PRETTY VALID ARGUMENTS AGAST ROMANO AND OTHERS, POTG OUT THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL STANC OF LYRICS “PUTTG THE BALL HER URT.” FOR HIS PART, ROB THICKE SAID AN TERVIEW ON THE TODAY SHOW THAT HE AND T.I AND PHARELL, WHO ARE FEATURED ON THE TRACK WH HIM, “WERE JT TRYG TO MAKE A FUNNY SONG, AND SOMETIM THE LYRICS N GET MISNSTED WHEN YOU’RE JT TRYG TO PUT PEOPLE ON THE DANCE FLOOR AND HAVE A GOOD TIME.” EVEN SO, THIS NTROVERSY IS STILL FULL SWG, WH ARTICL WRTEN AS RECENTLY AS THIS WEEK, WH AN ARTICLE FOR UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME’S THE OBSERVER ENTLED “L ARE NOT ‘BLURRED,’” REERATG MANY OF THE POTS THAT OTHERS HAVE MA, ALBE OM THE POT OF VIEW OF A LLEGE UNRGRAD. AND SPEAKG OF LLEG... THE SONG HAS BEEN BANNED AT 5 BRISH UNIVERSI WHAT DO KGSTON, ENDBURGH, LEEDS, DERBY, AND WT STLAND UNIVERSI HAVE MON? THEY’VE ALL BANNED “BLURRED L” OM THEIR MP BARS. IN EACH SE, THE REASON HAS BEEN THE SAME: THE BELIEF THAT THE SONG “EXC RAPE CULTURE” AND “IS UNACCEPTABLE.” HOLLIE O’CONNOR, PRINT OF THE UNIVERSY OF DERBY STUNTS' UNN, TOLD NBC NEWS THAT “IF [WE] HAD 1,000 STUNTS ONE OF OUR BARS AND ONLY 10 PERCENT FELT UNFORTABLE WH THE SONG BEG PLAYED THEN WE’D HAVE FAILED THEM." O’CONNOR ALSO NOTED THAT “SCE BANNG THE SONG SHE HAS RECEIVED MANY EMAILS OF SUPPORT AND ‘NOT ONE WHICH CLOSE TO A PLAT.’” THE RACY MIC VIOTHERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO VERSNS OF THE “BLURRED L” MIC VIO. MUCH LIKE THE SONG, ONE VERSN OF THE VIO—WHICH FEATUR A BUNCH OF WOMEN SKIMPY OUTFS DANCG AROUND ROB THICKE, T.I., AND PHARRELL—HAS BEEN WILDLY SUCCSFUL: HAS GOTTEN 207 LN VIEWS THE PAST 7 MONTHS. BUT WHILE THAT ONE HAS RAISED A FEW EYEBROWS, ’S THE “UNRATED” VERSN THAT REALLY FFLED FEATHERS. IN , THOSE SKIMPY OUTFS ALL BUT DISAPPEAR, AND THE WOMEN DO THEIR THG WEARG ONLY SK-LORED THONGS WHILE MASSIVE HASHTAGS PERDILLY VERG THE SCREEN FOR NO DISCERNABLE REASON. IN OTHER WORDS, ’S THE KD OF THG THAT WAS ALWAYS GOG TO E NTROVERSY. AS FOR THE GEO EY RATAJKOWSKI, THE MOST PROMENTLY FEATURED MOL THE MIC VIO—SHE WON ESQUIRE’S “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” POLL FOR 2013, BEATG OUT JENNIFER LAWRENCE THE LAST ROUND. THAT VMAS PERFORMANCE WHO DON’T REMEMBER THE VMAS? WHOO BOY. WHEN MILEY CYS ME OUT, THAT WAS PRETTY WEIRD AND OF SELF, BUT WAS REALLY ROB THICKE’S APPEARANCE THAT MA THE WHOLE THG EXPLO. MILLNS WATCHED AS A CHILDHOOD HERO SANG THICKE’S SONG TO HIM AND THEN STARTED GRDG UP AGAST HIM. WHILE CYS UGHT THE BNT OF THE NTROVERSY, THERE WAS STILL SOME BLOWBACK AGAST THICKE, WHO IS MARRIED WH CHILDREN. HIS WIFE, HOWEVER, REALLY DIDN’T RE ABOUT THE WHOLE THG. IN AN TERVIEW WH ANDY COHEN, SHE SAID, “HONTLY, THEY REHEARSED FOR THREE DAYS BEFOREHAND, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW NOT TO DANCE WH SOMEONE HAVG THEIR BOOTY YOUR … ALL MY IENDS DO LIKE THAT,’ SHE EXPLAED. ‘AND I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE BIG AL IS.’” WHILE THAT WON’T STOP HATERS OM HATG, PUTS A PRETTY BIG P ON THE WHOLE THG. STOLEN OM MARV GAYE? THE MOST RECENT NTROVERSY IS THE MOST TERTG AND ULD EASILY BE THE MOST DAMAGG: ROB THICKE HAS BEEN ACCED OF STEALG THE “BLURRED L” MIC OM MARV GAYE’S “GOT TO GIVE IT UP.” BUT THIS IS TERTG AT LEAST PART BEE ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS, AND CLIFFORD HARRIS JR. SUED GAYE’S TATE BACK AUGT AFTER SOME IAL PLATS WERE MA. THEIR LAWSU WAS TEND TO GRANT THEM FULL RIGHTS TO THE SONG AND STOP GAYE’S TATE OM BEG ABLE TO SUE THEM THE FUTURE, BEE THEY BELIEVED THAT THEIR SONG WAS “STARKLY DIFFERENT” OM GAYE’S. OBVLY THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN. BUT ’S NOT JT “GOT TO GIVE IT UP” THAT WAS ALLEGEDLY TAKEN OM; THE LAWSU ALSO CLAIMS THAT THICKE’S SONG “LOVE AFTER WAR” RIPPED OFF GAYE’S “AFTER THE DANCE” AND THAT “MAKE U LOVE ME” IS SIAR TO GAYE’S “I WANT YOU” (ALTHOUGH THAT LAST SONG IS NOT PART OF THE LAWSU SELF). IS THERE ANY MER TO ? NO, NOT REALLY. “BLURRED L” AND “GOT TO GIVE IT UP” ARE UNDOUBTEDLY SIAR, BUT NO ONE WHO KNEW EHER SONG ULD ACTUALLY NFE ONE FOR THE OTHER. “BLURRED L” IS AN HOMAGE TO SONGS LIKE GAYE’S, EVOKG THAT STYLE AND POSSIBLY EVEN THAT ONE SONG, BUT THEY’RE CERTALY NOT THE SAME. COMPARATIVELY, THE “AFTER THE DANCE” CLAIM SEEMS LUDICRO. RIGHT OM THE FIRST FEW NOT, ’S EASY TO UNRSTAND WHERE THE EARLIER CLAIMS ME OM, EVEN IF THEIR NCLNS ARE OFF THE MARK, BUT “LOVE AFTER WAR” AND “AFTER THE DANCE” ARE RADILLY DIFFERENT SONGS, AND ANY SIARI ARE FLEETG, AND IS SILLY TO THK OTHERWISE. ALEC KUBAS-MEYER

MARV GAYE FAY PREVAILS 'BLURRED L' PLAGIARISM SE

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. Sheeran (2023)‘Thkg Out Loud’“Let’s Get It On”Marv Gaye“Thkg Out Loud”Ed SheeranIn a long-nng se that was layed part by the ronavis panmic, heirs of Townsend, Gaye’s -wrer of “Let’s Get It On, ” acce Sheeran of pyg the “heart” of that song for his h “Thkg Out Loud. 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.

‘BLURRED L’ INGED ON MARV GAYE COPYRIGHT, JURY RUL

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. 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. But no one has mentned that the rhythm arrangement on “Got to Give It Up” was not wrten by Marv Gaye alone, though he owned the rights to acrdg to pyright law as terpreted at the time.

RULG THAT ‘BLURRED L’ PIED MARV GAYE SONG ROCKS MIC WORLD

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.

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.

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.

MARV GAYE'S FAY WS 'BLURRED L' APPEAL; PHARRELL, ROB THICKE MT PAY

”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.

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

AdvertisementSKIP McCarten/RtersMarch 10, 2015For the last year and a half, the mic dtry has been gripped by a lawsu over whether Rob Thicke’s 2013 h “Blurred L” was merely remiscent of a song by Marv Gaye, or had crossed the le to plagiarism.

PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE MT PAY MARV GAYE'S FAY $5 MILLN OVER 'BLURRED L': REPORTS

”A rrectn was ma onMarch 13, 2015: An article on Wednday about the pyright gement trial volvg the song “Blurred L” referred imprecisely to the damag award to the fay of Marv Gaye. 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.

‘BLURRED L’ LAWSU: MARV GAYE FAY NOW CLAIMS ROB THICKE STOLE TWO SONGS (EXCLIVE)

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. 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.

BLURRED L SE: ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS PLAGIARIZED MARV GAYE SONG, JURY FDS

) 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. AdvertisementSKIP Betancur/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagMarch 21, 2018In the mic dtry’s most closely watched pyright se, a feral appeals urt on Wednday upheld a jury’s fdg that Rob Thicke’s song “Blurred L” ged on the pyright of Marv Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up. “Y, Amy Wadge and I wrote the song ‘Thkg Out Loud, ’” he Newman/Associated PrsIn a closely watched mic pyright trial, jurors ultimately sid wh Ed Sheeran, who had been acced of pyg his Grammy-wng ballad “Thkg Out Loud” om Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On.

The trial was watched closely mic and legal circl as the latt example a seri of s that have alt wh whether monplace bs of harmony or melody n be owned by any poser or are part of the public trend began 2015 when a jury found that Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams, their h “Blurred L, ” had ged on the pyright of another Gaye tune, “Got to Give It Up, ” and they were orred to pay more than $5 ln damag.

'BLURRED L' NTROVERSY RURFAC AS MARV GAYE'S FAY CLAIMS PHARRELL MTED PERJURY

In March 2015, the jury led favor of the Gaye tate, statg that while Williams and Thicke did not directly py “Got to Give It Up, ” there was enough of a siar “feel” to warrant pyright gement. The product, “Blurred L, ” went on to bee the biggt song of 2013 and brg lns of dollars each for Williams, sger Rob Thicke and the rerd obscure procs — “magic, ” Williams’ attorney lled — and what, if any, part the late soul sger and songwrer Marv Gaye played were the subject of a two-week-long trial a downtown feral urtroom which attorneys, mic experts, valuatn experts and micians argued over the age-old qutn of where spiratn ends and theft Tuday, a feral jury cid that “Blurred L” had pied Gaye’s 1977 chart-topper “Got To Give It Up, ” and found that Williams and Thicke should fork over nearly $7.

THIS IS HOW PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE LOST THAT 'BLURRED L' LAWSUMTV NEWS ASKED THE EXPERTS TO BREAK {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MICBY BRENNA EHRLICHMARCH 11, 2015/4:32 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}KEV MAZUR/GETTY IMAGBY BRENNA EHRLICHMARCH 11, 2015 / 4:32 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THIS IS HOW PHARRELL AND ROB THICKE LOST THAT 'BLURRED L' LAWSU","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-03-11T20:32:05.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-03-11T20:32:05.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"BRENNA EHRLICH","KEYWORDS":"R & B SOUL, POP MIC","ARTICLESECTN":"MIC"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS ARE MULLG THEIR LEGAL OPTNS OVER A JURY CISN THAT WILL FORCE THEM TO GIVE MARV GAYE'S CHILDREN A $7.4 LN PAYOUT, WE’VE BEEN WRTLG WH SOME QUTNS OF OUR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DID PHARRELL AND THICKE’S H “BLURRED L” REALLY PY GAYE'S 1977 SONG "GOT TO GIVE IT UP"? AND IF, AS THE CISN SUGGTS, THE PAIR DIDN’T LIBERATELY GE ON THE LATE CROONER'S TUNE, THEN WHY ARE THEY LIABLE? AND IF THE L BETWEEN SPIRATN AND GEMENT ARE SO, UM, BLURRED, SHOULD THE MIC DTRY CURRENTLY BE EAKG OUT ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CREATIVY?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MTV NEWS TURNED TO THE EXPERTS TO EXPLA THIS WHOLE MS, BEGNG WH HOW THE GAYE TATE ME OUT ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MILOGISTS DEEMED THE SONGS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN YOU'RE ALG WH A PYRIGHT GEMENT SE, YOU START BY LISTENG TO THE TWO WORKS QUTN AND CI WHETHER OR NOT THEY SOUND SIAR, ACRDG TO ATTORNEY BRIAN D. CAPLAN OF RELER KAILAS & ROSENBLATT LLC. IF THE PIEC SOUND ALIKE -- TO THE AVERAGE PERSON -- YOU BRG MILOGISTS TO EXPLA WHY THERE ARE THOSE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THIS SE, THE GAY ULDN'T PLAY "GOT TO GIVE IT UP" URT BEE THE FAY ONLY HELD RIGHTS TO THE SHEET MIC BUT, THE END, THE JURY HEARD A STRIPPED-DOWN VERSN OF THE PIECE, ACRDG TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, AND BROUGHT MILOGISTS WHO EMED ELEMENTS OF THE SONGS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR THE JURY TO SAY, 'HEY, THIS SONG SOUNDS SUBSTANTIALLY SIAR TO 'BLURRED L,' HAS PONENTS SIAR TO -- NOT THE ENTIRE SONG, PONENTS -- THAT SOUND SUBSTANTIALLY SIAR TO PONENTS OM THE MARV GAYE SONG AS S SHOWN ON THE SHEET MIC," CAPLAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, BASILLY, THE JURY LISTENED TO THEIR EARS -- AND TO THE EXPERTS -- AND CID THAT PHARRELL AND THICKE HAD CRIBBED OM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT THAT DON'T MEAN THE SONGS ARE ACTUALLY THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MILOGISTS THAT WERE LLED OFFERED THEIR PROFSNAL OPNS, BUT OTHER EXPERTS WOULD DISAGREE -- LIKE JOE BENT, PROFSOR OF POPULAR MIC AND DEAN OF SCHOOL OF MIC & PERFORMG ARTS, BATH SPA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“I’VE BEEN FOLLOWG THIS SE SCE THE FIRST ACCATNS OF PYG ME TO LIGHT OCTOBER 2013," BENT TOLD MTV NEWS. "THE ISSUE ISN’T WHETHER THICKE AND PHARRELL WERE FLUENCED BY GAYE -- THEY ADMTED AS MUCH AT THE TIME. RATHER, THE PROBLEM IS THAT NO PART OF THE ACTUAL POSN HAS BEEN PIED. THERE ARE NO MELODIC SECTNS, CHORD SEQUENC OR LYRICS OM 'GOT TO GIVE IT UP' THAT APPEAR 'BLURRED L.' "{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"IF I'D BEEN A FLY ON THE WALL OF THAT JURY ROOM, I WOULD HAVE BUZZED PRETTY LOUDLY," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, YOU KNOW, THE GAY MAY HAVE WON, BUT THAT DON'T MEAN EVERYONE THKS THEY SHOULD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHY THE CASE WENT TO TRIAL IN THE FIRST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOT A LOT OF PYRIGHT S ACTUALLY MAKE TO TRIAL, ACRDG TO CAPLAN -- "OR THEY GET KICKED OUT MOTN PRACTICE ONT OF A JUDGE, BEE A LOT OF S ARE BROUGHT FOR NON-PROTECTABLE SUBJECT MATTER," HE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS SE, THE END, GOT TO TRIAL BEE BACK OCTOBER 2014, A CALIFORNIA JUDGE FOUND THE SONGS SIAR ENOUGH TO PROCEED WH THE FAY'S CLAIM. ALSO, BOTH SIS KEPT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SOME S ARE ALSO MORE LIKELY TO SETTLE, ACRDG TO CAPLAN, IF THE GEMENT IS KD OF AN ACCINT -- SOMETHG LLED SUBLIMAL GEMENT. THAT MAY SOUND FANCY, BUT 'S BASILLY WHEN YOU HEAR A SONG, TUCK AWAY YOUR BRA UNNSCLY, THEN E ELEMENTS OF WHEN WRG YOUR OWN SONG. THICKE AND PHARRELL ULDN'T REALLY CLAIM SUBLIMAL GEMENT -- AND WE DOUBT THEY WOULD WANT TO -- BEE THEY'RE PRETTY OPENLY SPOKEN ABOUT BEG SPIRED BY GAYE ON THAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}QUTN ROUND: SO WHAT EFFECT WILL THIS CASE HAVE ON FUTURE CAS?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY EAKG OUT ABOUT WHAT THIS SE WILL DO TO THE FUTURE OF CREATIVY. "WHAT WORRI ME ABOUT THIS JUDGEMENT IS THE PRECENT SETS," BENT TOLD MTV NEWS. "ALL ART IS FLUENCED BY OTHER ART, AND GENR OF MIC EVOLVE BEE OF CLTERS OF DIVIDUAL SONGS THAT HAVE MIL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE WE ULD TOTALLY SEE ARTISTS GETTG GUN-SHY AFTER THIS JURY CISN, LEGALLY THERE'S NOT REALLY MUCH TO WORRY ABOUT -- AT LEAST ACRDG TO THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"A URT LG SETS A PRECENT -- [BUT] A JURY VERDICT IS ONLY BASED UPON THE FACTS THAT HAVE BEEN ONT OF THE JURY," CAPLAN TOLD . "SO [THE GAYE SE] SETS NO PRECENT. IT'S NOT LIKE THE SUPREME COURT. IT'S NOT LIKE THE HIGHT URT ANY STATE. IT'S NOT LIKE THE TERMEDIATE FERAL URTS. EACH TIME THEY MAKE A CISN, 'S WRTEN THE BOOK AND SETS A PRECENT FOR LAWYERS TO LOOK AT THE FUTURE TO SAY, 'THIS IS THE LAW.' WHEN A JURY BACK WH A VERDICT, 'S A FACTUAL TERMATN, NOT A LEGAL. THEY'VE HEARD THE FACTS AND THEY'VE SAID, 'INGEMENT.'"{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN SHORT: THIS SE ISN'T GOG TO MAKE ANYONE MORE LIG THAN THEY ALREADY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHAT'S UP WH THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW?REDFERNS/JOSEPH OKPAKOROB {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE TERTG FACT ABOUT PYRIGHT GEMENT? AS MORE AND MORE MIC IS MA, WILL BEE HARR TO PROVE THAT SOMEONE IS CRIBBG OM SOMEONE ELSE -- WHICH ULD BE FORTG FOR THOSE AFOREMENTNED EAKED-OUT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WHEN YOU BRG A PYRIGHT GEMENT SE, YOU HAVE TO DO A SURVEY OF PRR ART, WHICH MEANS PRR SONGS AND THE E THOSE PRR SONGS OF SIAR NOTE PROGRSNS OR SIAR MELODI," CAPLAN SAID. "THE MORE PRR ART YOU FD, THE BETTER OFF YOU ARE."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SO, BASILLY, IF YOU E THE WORD "PARTY!" YOUR CHOS, YOU'RE PROBABLY OK BEE TONS OF OTHER PEOPLE HAVE ED THAT WORD AS SUCH. "THIS SICK BEAT" ON THE OTHER HAND...{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}R & B SOULPOP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Gaye’s dghter, Nona, clung to her attorney and sobbed when the verdict was oute uld reverberate throughout the mic dtry, given how prevalent is the bs to draw spiratn, and sometim more, om earlier Sam Smh agreed earlier this year to share royalti om his song “Stay Wh Me” after parisons to Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down, ” the olr mician wrote on his webse that was a “mil accint, ” and sound a sympathetic note: “All my years of songwrg have shown me the thgs n happen.

”The eight-person jury, most of whom appeared to be more of Gaye’s generatn than Thicke and Williams’ mographic, heard “Blurred L” several tim durg the trial and twice watched the rnchy mic vio — but never got to hear the full rerdg of “Got to Give It Up. ” Bee laws when Gaye wrote the song allowed only the sheet mic posn, not the sound rerdg, to be pyrighted, jurors heard short snippets and a stripped-down versn created by Thicke and Williams’ milogist wh jt Gaye’s vols over a bass le and chords on a said there were pied elements — cludg the bass and keyboard le, the hook and a repeated theme — all but two bars of “Blurred L.

” Thicke and Williams disavowed statements they ma over and over aga prs terviews about how they talked about or channeled Gaye as they wrote the oath on the wns stand, Thicke said he had been dnk and high the day the song was wrten and durg his prs terviews, and had sought to unservedly take cred even though he had wrten none of said he had misremembered the events of the night and only realized his error when he heard Williams’ rellectn at a posn. Williams ttified that he ma the nnectn to Gaye only hdsight, and that though he was raised listeng to Gaye and rpected the mician “beyond words, ” he did not take om his mic. Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke had a certified h on their hands wh 2013’s "Blurred L, " a Billboard Song of the Summer that seemed to many listeners to borrow om Marv Gaye’s qutsential 1977 h “Got To Give It Up.

PHARRELL HAS REPORTEDLY BEEN CLEARED FROM HIS MARV GAYE ‘BLURRED L’ PERJURY LAWSU

Wh the Circu Court fdg favor of the Gaye tate, means that artists might nsir errg on the si of utn and extreme due diligence when to the forc that lead to song or beat creatn. Bee 's mighty difficult to listen to Stevie Wonr, Marv Gaye and Dnne Warwick your whole life and not some way be spired by their mic a way that might meld wh or fluence your own origal works later life. The attorney for some members of the Gaye fay says the se played out well, and he also says he believ the Gaye fay would have pursued this lawsu even if the song wasn't a smash h.

‘BLURRED L’ LAWSU: A DEFIVE HISTORY OF THE SONG’S (MANY) CONTROVERSIYOU KNOW YOU WANT ITTHE SONG OF THE SUMMER, ROB THICKE’S “BLURRED L,” HAS BEEN PABLE SCE WAS RELEASED THIS SUMMER. SO HAVE THE NTROVERSI SURROUNDG . A GUI TO THE BIGGT.ALEC KUBAS-MEYERUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:08PM EDT VEVO STEPHEN COLBERT LLED THE “SONG OF THE SUMMER OF THE CENTURY,” AND EVERY SGLE PERSON WHO TURNED ON A RAD SCE MARCH HAS HAD STUCK THEIR HEAD, VOLUNTARILY OR NOT, AT SOME POT OR ANOTHER. BUT ROB THICKE’S SONG “BLURRED L,” THE WILDLY SUCCSFUL TRACK OM THE WILDLY SUCCSFUL ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME, HAS BEEN AT THE CENTER OF WHAT SEEMS LIKE NSTANT NTROVERSY. THE BIGGT NTROVERSY OF LATE OM A LAWSU FILED BY MARV GAYE’S TATE, ALLEGG THAT THE THICKE’S H PLAGIARIZED OM GAYE’S 1977 SONG “GOT TO GIVE IT UP.” THEY ARE ANGERED BY THICKE’S APPARENT “MARV GAYE FIXATN,” AND WANT TO BE PENSATED FOR .BUT THERE WAS A WHOLE SUMMER OF NTROVERSI THAT PRECED THIS LAWSU. THE ARE THE BIGGT ON: DO THE SONG HAVE “RAPEY” LYRICS? THE DAILY BEAST’S TRICIA ROMANO REALLY KICKED THIS NTROVERSY TO HIGH GEAR. ROMANO WROTE AN ARTICLE ENTLED “‘BLURRED L,’ ROB THICKE’S SUMMER ANTHEM, IS KD OF RAPEY.” THE STICKG POT FOR MANY WAS THE NSTANTLY REPEATED LYRIC “I KNOW YOU WANT ,” WHICH MANY HAVE FOUND OBJECTNABLE, ALTHOUGH SLATE’S JENNIFER LAI AT OM A DIFFERENT ANGLE, “ROB THICKE’S ‘BLURRED L’ IS COCKY, Y. BUT RAPEY? NO.” IT’S AN TERTG PIECE AND BRGS UP SOME PRETTY VALID ARGUMENTS AGAST ROMANO AND OTHERS, POTG OUT THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL STANC OF LYRICS “PUTTG THE BALL HER URT.” FOR HIS PART, ROB THICKE SAID AN TERVIEW ON THE TODAY SHOW THAT HE AND T.I AND PHARELL, WHO ARE FEATURED ON THE TRACK WH HIM, “WERE JT TRYG TO MAKE A FUNNY SONG, AND SOMETIM THE LYRICS N GET MISNSTED WHEN YOU’RE JT TRYG TO PUT PEOPLE ON THE DANCE FLOOR AND HAVE A GOOD TIME.” EVEN SO, THIS NTROVERSY IS STILL FULL SWG, WH ARTICL WRTEN AS RECENTLY AS THIS WEEK, WH AN ARTICLE FOR UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME’S THE OBSERVER ENTLED “L ARE NOT ‘BLURRED,’” REERATG MANY OF THE POTS THAT OTHERS HAVE MA, ALBE OM THE POT OF VIEW OF A LLEGE UNRGRAD. AND SPEAKG OF LLEG... THE SONG HAS BEEN BANNED AT 5 BRISH UNIVERSI WHAT DO KGSTON, ENDBURGH, LEEDS, DERBY, AND WT STLAND UNIVERSI HAVE MON? THEY’VE ALL BANNED “BLURRED L” OM THEIR MP BARS. IN EACH SE, THE REASON HAS BEEN THE SAME: THE BELIEF THAT THE SONG “EXC RAPE CULTURE” AND “IS UNACCEPTABLE.” HOLLIE O’CONNOR, PRINT OF THE UNIVERSY OF DERBY STUNTS' UNN, TOLD NBC NEWS THAT “IF [WE] HAD 1,000 STUNTS ONE OF OUR BARS AND ONLY 10 PERCENT FELT UNFORTABLE WH THE SONG BEG PLAYED THEN WE’D HAVE FAILED THEM." O’CONNOR ALSO NOTED THAT “SCE BANNG THE SONG SHE HAS RECEIVED MANY EMAILS OF SUPPORT AND ‘NOT ONE WHICH CLOSE TO A PLAT.’” THE RACY MIC VIOTHERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO VERSNS OF THE “BLURRED L” MIC VIO. MUCH LIKE THE SONG, ONE VERSN OF THE VIO—WHICH FEATUR A BUNCH OF WOMEN SKIMPY OUTFS DANCG AROUND ROB THICKE, T.I., AND PHARRELL—HAS BEEN WILDLY SUCCSFUL: HAS GOTTEN 207 LN VIEWS THE PAST 7 MONTHS. BUT WHILE THAT ONE HAS RAISED A FEW EYEBROWS, ’S THE “UNRATED” VERSN THAT REALLY FFLED FEATHERS. IN , THOSE SKIMPY OUTFS ALL BUT DISAPPEAR, AND THE WOMEN DO THEIR THG WEARG ONLY SK-LORED THONGS WHILE MASSIVE HASHTAGS PERDILLY VERG THE SCREEN FOR NO DISCERNABLE REASON. IN OTHER WORDS, ’S THE KD OF THG THAT WAS ALWAYS GOG TO E NTROVERSY. AS FOR THE GEO EY RATAJKOWSKI, THE MOST PROMENTLY FEATURED MOL THE MIC VIO—SHE WON ESQUIRE’S “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” POLL FOR 2013, BEATG OUT JENNIFER LAWRENCE THE LAST ROUND. THAT VMAS PERFORMANCE WHO DON’T REMEMBER THE VMAS? WHOO BOY. WHEN MILEY CYS ME OUT, THAT WAS PRETTY WEIRD AND OF SELF, BUT WAS REALLY ROB THICKE’S APPEARANCE THAT MA THE WHOLE THG EXPLO. MILLNS WATCHED AS A CHILDHOOD HERO SANG THICKE’S SONG TO HIM AND THEN STARTED GRDG UP AGAST HIM. WHILE CYS UGHT THE BNT OF THE NTROVERSY, THERE WAS STILL SOME BLOWBACK AGAST THICKE, WHO IS MARRIED WH CHILDREN. HIS WIFE, HOWEVER, REALLY DIDN’T RE ABOUT THE WHOLE THG. IN AN TERVIEW WH ANDY COHEN, SHE SAID, “HONTLY, THEY REHEARSED FOR THREE DAYS BEFOREHAND, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW NOT TO DANCE WH SOMEONE HAVG THEIR BOOTY YOUR … ALL MY IENDS DO LIKE THAT,’ SHE EXPLAED. ‘AND I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE BIG AL IS.’” WHILE THAT WON’T STOP HATERS OM HATG, PUTS A PRETTY BIG P ON THE WHOLE THG. STOLEN OM MARV GAYE? THE MOST RECENT NTROVERSY IS THE MOST TERTG AND ULD EASILY BE THE MOST DAMAGG: ROB THICKE HAS BEEN ACCED OF STEALG THE “BLURRED L” MIC OM MARV GAYE’S “GOT TO GIVE IT UP.” BUT THIS IS TERTG AT LEAST PART BEE ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS, AND CLIFFORD HARRIS JR. SUED GAYE’S TATE BACK AUGT AFTER SOME IAL PLATS WERE MA. THEIR LAWSU WAS TEND TO GRANT THEM FULL RIGHTS TO THE SONG AND STOP GAYE’S TATE OM BEG ABLE TO SUE THEM THE FUTURE, BEE THEY BELIEVED THAT THEIR SONG WAS “STARKLY DIFFERENT” OM GAYE’S. OBVLY THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN. BUT ’S NOT JT “GOT TO GIVE IT UP” THAT WAS ALLEGEDLY TAKEN OM; THE LAWSU ALSO CLAIMS THAT THICKE’S SONG “LOVE AFTER WAR” RIPPED OFF GAYE’S “AFTER THE DANCE” AND THAT “MAKE U LOVE ME” IS SIAR TO GAYE’S “I WANT YOU” (ALTHOUGH THAT LAST SONG IS NOT PART OF THE LAWSU SELF). IS THERE ANY MER TO ? NO, NOT REALLY. “BLURRED L” AND “GOT TO GIVE IT UP” ARE UNDOUBTEDLY SIAR, BUT NO ONE WHO KNEW EHER SONG ULD ACTUALLY NFE ONE FOR THE OTHER. “BLURRED L” IS AN HOMAGE TO SONGS LIKE GAYE’S, EVOKG THAT STYLE AND POSSIBLY EVEN THAT ONE SONG, BUT THEY’RE CERTALY NOT THE SAME. COMPARATIVELY, THE “AFTER THE DANCE” CLAIM SEEMS LUDICRO. RIGHT OM THE FIRST FEW NOT, ’S EASY TO UNRSTAND WHERE THE EARLIER CLAIMS ME OM, EVEN IF THEIR NCLNS ARE OFF THE MARK, BUT “LOVE AFTER WAR” AND “AFTER THE DANCE” ARE RADILLY DIFFERENT SONGS, AND ANY SIARI ARE FLEETG, AND IS SILLY TO THK OTHERWISE. ALEC KUBAS-MEYER

It regniz that the jury properly found that 'Blurred L' pied Marv Gaye’s groundbreakg 1977 h 'Got to Give It Up, '" said Richard Bch, an attorney for some of the Gaye fay members. Rob Thicke, Pharrell Williams to pay $5 ln to Marv Gaye tate for 'Blurred L'The five-year legal battle has end wh a verdict favor of Mart Gaye's tate, who sued claimg "Blurred L" pied Gaye's "Got To Give It Up"Sger Pharrell Williams and sger Rob Thicke perform together Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 6, Wilkg / Rters fileDec.

13, 2018, 8:24 PM UTCThe long drawn-out pyright battle over Rob Thicke’s 2013 song “Blurred L” has end after a judge orred Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay almost $5 ln to Marv Gaye’s tate the se’s fal lg. Was cleared of any liabily March, a cisn upheld this last and fal Gaye tate was also reward half of the song’s nng royalti om after the urt’s origal judgment date, and tert of 0.

In 2016, more than 200 micians, cludg Jennifer Hudson and Hans Zimmer, filed an amic brief support of Thicke and Williams appeal, claimg the verdict would be “very dangero” to the mic the Gaye fay first filed their lawsu, other high-profile artists like Lana Del Rey and Mark Ronson have been siarly KslenBen Kslen is a reporter for NBC News.

After a five-year-long legal back-and-forth, a judge has termed that Pharrell Williams and Rob Thicke, the artists behd the 2013 mega h “Blurred L, ” mt pay the fay of the late Marv Gaye $5 ln, multiple outlets report. On Wednday, the fay went nuclear wh unterclaims that allege that Thicke stole the summer mega-h and also mted pyright gement on Gaye’s “After the Dance” to create his song “Love After War.

Acrdg to the unterclaims, EMI has breached a ntract and s fiduciary duty by failg to protect Gaye’s songs, attemptg to timidate the fay agast filg any legal actn, failg to rema ntral when faced wh a nflict of tert and attemptg to turn public opn agast the fay.

The penalty for those acts, says the Gaye fay, should be that EMI los all profs on “Blurred L” as well as rights to admister the song talog of Gaye, known as the “Prce of Soul. In the latt urt papers, Frankie Gaye and Nona Gaye say that not only do the lawsu ncern “blatant pyg of a nstellatn of distctive and signifint posnal elements of Marv Gaye’s classic #1 song, ” but that Thicke himself ndidly admted as much. While the untersu mak the se that the public has tected Gaye Thicke’s other songs — “cludg the siar bridge and intil lyrics om Marv Gaye’s ‘I Want You’ Thicke’s siarly-themed work, ‘Make U Love Me’ ” — brgs a send pyright gement claim only over Thicke’s “Love After War.

Acrdg to the untersu, EMI’s “misnduct” clus failg to intify and raise claims based on entsted Marv Gaye pyrights, and after allegedly admtg that a claim was viable, “subsequently stctg s ligatn attorney to timidate the Gaye Fay om filg an actn by antagonistilly warng that any lawsu would be ivolo. The Gaye fay asserts that not only did EMI refe to brg unterclaims after seeg a “renowned milogist’s report, ” but that gave “strong biased support to the Blurred Wrers.