LOS ANGELES A federal court in Los Angeles yesterday declared guilty of plagiarism musicians Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke considering that its success “Blurred Lines” (2013) is a copy of the classic “Got to give it up” (1977) Marvin Gaye.
The decision, taken by a jury condemns artists to pay more than $ 7.3 million to the descendants of Gaye.
“This is a beautiful day for us,” said Nona Gaye, daughter of singer died in 1984, at the exit of the courts in the city center angelina the media.
His lawyer, Richard Busch said that he had requested an injunction to block sales of “Blurred lines”, according collected NBC.
“Blurred lines” was number one on the charts in the US for 10 weeks after its release, and sold 4.6 million copies.
The song was recorded by Williams, Thicke and rapper TI, although the latter was exempted from liability, as the record company Interscope Records.
As stated Busch during the trial, “Blurred lines” and “Got to give it up” are equal in terms of the use of bass, keyboards and structure, and musicologist who was called as an expert witness found similarities in eight elements of both songs, the newspaper Los Angeles Times .
Williams stated that wrote the song solo and collaboration for the album Burred Lines , Thicke, and admitted that the subject had a “style Gaye”. EFE
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