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Reuters.com: A jury awarded Marvin Gaye's children nearly $7.4 million Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father's music to create "Blurred Lines," the biggest hit song of 2013.
Their lawyer...branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye's late-1970s music and copied the R&B legend's hit Got to Give It Up outright...
Jurors repeatedly heard...Blurred Lines and saw snippets of its music video, but...not...Got to Give It Up as Gaye recorded it...Rather, (they heard) a version created based solely on sheet music submitted to gain copyright protection. That version lacked many of the elements — including Gaye's voice — that helped make the song a hit...
Gaye died in April 1984, leaving his children the copyrights to his music.
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Serves them right for not being able to throw each other under the bus fast enough.
It they knew
the video would be played in court, they DEFINITELY should have settled, LOL! But maybe it's not too late for them to file an appeal on the grounds that there were too many feminists on the jury!