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Mais aujourd'hui, l'entourage du défunt a officiellement décidé de porter plainte à son tour. In a statement following the trial, the singers’ lawyer said “there was no properly admissible evidence upon which the jury could have found copying”. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Howard King, lead attorney for Williams, Thicke and T.I., told jurors a verdict for the Gaye family would stifle artists and inhibit musicians trying to recreate an era or genre of music. Follow him on Twitter @tamburintweets. Copyright © 2002-2020 Webedia - Tous droits réservés. The court agreed at the time. The ruling would also prevent the song from being performed or distributed, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. He restored the jury finding that the Interscope record label, part of Vivendi SA, and Clifford Harris, the rapper known as T.I. We are reviewing the decision, considering our options and you will hear more from us soon about this matter.". Circuit Court of Appeals said Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up” deserved “broad” copyright protection, and the March 2015 jury verdict in favor of Gaye’s three children could stand because there was “not an absolute absence of evidence” of similarity between the two songs. The ruling would also prevent the song from being performed or distributed Thicke has in interviews acknowledged drawing on Gaye’s song but maintained in sworn statements that he exaggerated his contribution to “Blurred Lines.”. But winning this might be more satisfying because of the machine we were up against and who Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke are. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. That's been the issue in the musically packed, big-money Los Angeles trial over the 2013 hit Blurred Lines. Pharrell and Thicke were ordered to pay Gaye’s three children $7.3 million (£4.8 million) after a court ruled last week that “Blurred Lines” infringed the copyright of Gaye’s 1997 song “Got to Give It Up”. Thicke and Williams denied copying. “Everything is set forth in detail in the papers filed with the court.”. But in testimony under oath during the trial, Williams said, “I did not go in the studio with the intention of making anything feel like, or to sound like, Marvin Gaye.”. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. pre-emptively sued the family of late singer Marvin Gaye for a determination on whether their hit song was an infringement on the copyright for Gaye's 1977 hit song, Got to Give It Up. Rubin says the two songs — meaning the songs themselves — are nothing alike. “We are thrilled,” Richard Busch, the Gayes’ lawyer, said in an interview. The upshot of the ruling essentially was that a feeling can be copyrighted. Among other things, they are seeking a whopping $3.5 million in attorney fees. Gaye’s family have now called for the verdict to be amended to include rapper TI, who contributed a verse to “Blurred Lines”, as well as record labels Universal Music, Interscope Records and Star Trek Entertainment.

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