In blockbuster new legal papers, the Gayes also target music publisher EMI for "conflicts of interest" and a decision not to ruin the "golden goose" that is the year's biggest hit song. By Eriq ...
*A federal appeals court on Wednesday (March 22) upheld a jury’s finding that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines” infringed on the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.” ...
LOS ANGELES - Heirs of the late soul singer Marvin Gaye won a $7.4 million judgment on Tuesday against recording stars Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, who a jury found plagiarized the Motown ...
*Pharrell Williams says his song “Blurred Lines” is not a copy of Marvin Gaye’s song “Got to Give It Up.” What his track with Robin Thicke and T.I. shares with the 1977 R&B classic, he testified in ...
The lines are getting increasingly blurred. Their suit quotes multiple critics who have made the comparison between "Got To Give It Up" and "Blurred Lines," and it also draws on the testimony of ...
Was it simply an homage? Or flat-out copying? The jury decided Tuesday it was copying. That's what has been at issue in the musically-packed, big-money Los Angeles trial over 2013 hit Blurred Lines.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two of Marvin Gaye’s children sued Robin Thicke and his collaborators on the hit song “Blurred Lines” on Wednesday, accusing them of copyright infringement and alleging music ...
In 1977, singer Marvin Gaye—one of the most esteemed music artists of all time—did an audacious thing. Anna Gordy Gaye was divorcing Marvin and asking for one million dollars. Despite having a wildly ...
[Updated Saturday, March 14, 2015] LA Weekly sums up the dilemma regarding the “Blurred Lines” ruling thusly: “By this logic, the Bob Marley estate can sue pretty much every reggae artist of the past ...