'Blurred Lines': Marvin Gaye's Family Declined Settlement

Robin Thicke's team reportedly made Marvin Gaye's family a six-figure offer in an effort to avert a nasty copyright-infringement battle, but the family rejected it, Billboard reports. Suggested Reading Video test Diddyโ€™s Best Friend Charlie Liucci is Beingย Loudย About His Next Moves Will Be Following Acquittal The Root 100 – 2020 Video will return here when…

Robin Thicke's team reportedly made Marvin Gaye's family a six-figure offer in an effort to avert a nasty copyright-infringement battle, but the family rejected it, Billboard reports.

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According to sources knowledgeable with the lawsuit, the settlement offer came after Frankie Christian Gaye, Marvin Gaye III and Nona Marvisa Gaye accused Thicke's "Blurred Lines" hit single of plagiarizing "Got To Give it Up," written and composed by Marvin Gaye, who died in 1984.

Subsequently, Thicke, along with "Blurred Lines" co-writers Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr.,ย filed a lawsuit on Aug. 15 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles requesting a ruling that "Blurred Lines" does not infringe on "Got To Give It Up." It also requested a similar judgement with regard to another accusation, by Bridgeport Music Inc., that "Blurred Lines" infringed on George Clinton's "Sexy Ways."ย 

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