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Contents:
- MARV GAYE TATE VS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS
- THE BLURRED L OF COPYRIGHT LAW: ROB THICKE V. MARV GAYE'S ESTATE
- ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
- MARV GAYE’S ESTATE. V. ROB THICKE
- WILLIAMS V. GAYE, NO. 15-56880 (9TH CIR. 2018)
- MARV GAYE’S ESTATE SU ROB THICKE FOR ‘BLURRED L’ AND MORE
- WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG
- COURT SIS WH MARV GAYE FAY 'BLURRED L' FIGHT AGAST THICKE, WILLIAMS
MARV GAYE TATE VS ROB THICKE AND PHARRELL WILLIAMS
Marv Gaye fay's pyright gement lawsu agast Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams ends $5 ln judgment. * marvin gaye vs robin thicke *
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.
THE BLURRED L OF COPYRIGHT LAW: ROB THICKE V. MARV GAYE'S ESTATE
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, [...] * marvin gaye vs robin thicke *
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.
ROB THICKE, PHARRELL WILLIAMS TO PAY $5 LN TO MARV GAYE TATE FOR 'BLURRED L'
Rob Thicke and Pharrell Williams were orred to pay $5 ln to Marv Gaye's tate, the fal verdict of the 'Blurred L' lawsu. * marvin gaye vs robin thicke *
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. Marv Gaye wrote and rerd Got To Give It Up December 1976 and released as a sgle March 1977.
MARV GAYE’S ESTATE. V. ROB THICKE
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 … * marvin gaye vs robin thicke *
Release of the album Blurred L" reprentativ of Marv Gaye's tate and Funkalic's publisher Bridgeport Mic separately ntacted Williams and Thicke allegg that Blurred L ged the pyrights the posns Sexy Ways and Got To Give It Up, and that if they do not "pay a moary settlement of the... The wrers of Blurred L, Pharrell Williams, Rob Thicke and Calv Harris, reacted by "reluctantly" filg a plat for claratory relief on 15 Augt 2013 agast the three children of Marv Gaye, and Bridgeport Mic, the publishers of Funkalic's song Sexy Ways, which had been released 1974. The Gaye fay filed unterclaims October and November 2013 formally allegg that Blurred L ged the pyright Got To Give It Up.
They further alleged that Rob Thicke's song Love After War ged the pyright of Marv Gaye's After The Dance. Before the trial began the district urt led that the Gaye tate uld prent sound rerdgs that had been eded to pture only elements reflected the sheet mic 'pos py', and as a nsequence of this the mercial sound rerdg of Got To Give It Up was not played at the trial. 3m after a relculatn of the profs ma om publishg and label revenu of Blurred L, but wh an orr to pay 50% of future royalti om Blurred L to the Gaye fay, stead of placg an junctn on distributn of Blurred L, as had been requted by the Gaye fay.
WILLIAMS V. GAYE, NO. 15-56880 (9TH CIR. 2018)
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. * marvin gaye vs robin thicke *
On 24 Augt 2016 the Blurred L thors lodged an appeal brief wh the 9th Circu Court of Appeals LA, on the grounds that the jury had been wrongly stcted to nsir unprotectable elements of the mic, that there had been improper admissn of expert ttimony (particularly that the Gaye milogists' ttimony referred to elements not prent the sheet mic), and lack of evince supportg the verdict, matag that there is no extrsic or trsic siary between the two songs. It stat that "the majory [verdict at appeal] allows the Gay to acplish what no one has before: pyright a mil style", ntug that "strik a vastatg blow to future micians and posers everywhere. 98m to be paid to the Gaye tate, along wh tert on the owed amount, and half of the future royalti om Blurred L.
"I told him that one of my favore songs of all time was Marv Gaye’s Got to Give It Up. The document requtg a jury trial on behalf of the Gaye fay claims that Blurred L pi "quantatively and qualatively distct, important, and regnizable portns of Got To Give It Up", which "greatly enhanc the mil and fancial value of Blurred L". The Gaye fay's milogist Judh Fell suggted that there was a "nstellatn" of "at least eight" siari between the two songs:.
They further argued that the siari argued by the Gaye fay's milogist "do not reflect material that is origal to [Got To] Give [It Up]" - suggtg that all of the mil elements qutn are mon mic and unprotectable.
MARV GAYE’S ESTATE SU ROB THICKE FOR ‘BLURRED L’ AND MORE
Su alleg Thicke also plagiarized Gaye's track 'After the Dance' * marvin gaye vs robin thicke *
IP Watchdog 8th January 2018 article by Profsor Sean O'Connor, argug that the gement cisn was rrect, and cludg an image of the origal Marv Gaye sheet mic pos at the US Copyright Office. Gaye fay's unterclaim and mand for a jury trial, October 2013. Addn of Marv Gaye III November 2013 to the unterclaim and mand filed October 2013.
Williams and Thicke's rponse to ial October unterclaims om Gaye tate, December 2013. Williams and Thicke's rponse to November addnal unterclaims om Marv Gaye III, December 2013.
WILLIAMS V. GAYE: “BLURRED L” APPEAL HEARG CENTERS ON ADMISSIBILY OF EVINCE ABOUT ORIGAL SOUND RERDG
Williams v. Gaye: “Blurred L” Appeal Hearg Centers on Admissibily of Evince About Origal Sound Rerdg * marvin gaye vs robin thicke *
), 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”.
COURT SIS WH MARV GAYE FAY 'BLURRED L' FIGHT AGAST THICKE, WILLIAMS
The platiffs menced the lawsu bee both Marv Gaye’s fay and Bridgeport Mic have threatened the platiffs wh pyright gement ligatn based on siari between “Blurred L” and each of “Got to Give It Up” and “Sexy Ways”, rpectively. The key qutn of the lawsu is: uld the posers be held liable for pyright gement if they were fluenced and spired by Marv Gaye’s and Funkalic’s prr works, but did not actually sample such prr works or otherwise lerally py any of Marv Gaye’s or Funkalic’s mic or lyrics? Marv Gaye (Photo cred: Wikipedia).