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Judge Orders Pharrell & Robin Thicke to Pay $5 Million to Marvin Gaye’s Family for ‘Blurred Lines’

Posted on December 14th, 2018
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Staff Editor


Five years ago, the family of the late Marvin Gaye sued Pharrell and Robin Thicke over their hit single “Blurred Lines.” The duo had been accused of copyright infringement for the 2013 single because of the alleged similarities to Marvin’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.”

Fast forward to today (Dec. 14), a judge has ordered Pharrell and Robin to pay $5 million to the family. The suit would have been done 3-years ealier in 2015 when Pharrell and Robin were ordered to pay more than $7 million, but the pair appealed the verdict.

In the recent judgment issued by U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt in California, Robin, Pharrell, and Pharrell’s More Water From Nazareth Publishing are jointly required to pay Gaye’s family damages of nearly $2.9 million. Robin Thicke was also ordered to pay more than $1.7 million and Pharrell and his publishing company must pay $357,631 in separate awards to Gaye’s estate. The ruling also awarded Gaye’s family prejudgment interest on the damages and 50 percent of the royalties from “Blurred Lines” moving forward.

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