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The relatives of the late soul legend, Marvin Gaye, filed last Wednesday (30) a lawsuit against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, accusing the composers of infringing copyrights and denouncing the well-known single 'Blurred Lines' as a direct plagiarism of Gaye's song 'Got to Give It Up', released in 1977.
Gaye's relatives actually filed a counterclaim in the case previously filed by Thicke and Williams in August, in which the songwriters were seeking a federal court to rule that 'Blurred Lines' it did not infringe any copyright. Nona Marvisa Gaye and Frankie Christian Gaye also filed additional lawsuits, in one of them they accuse the record company EMI of not protecting Gaye's record catalog, for refusing to file a lawsuit for copyright infringement and for trying to intimidate them into they will not file a legal action for plagiarism.
In the lawsuit, Gaye's children cite different excerpts in which Thicke admits to the press of having based on 'Got to Give It Up' at the time of composing and producing 'Blurred Lines'. Both journalists and musicians immediately recognized similarities between the two singles since the release of 'Blurred Lines', a provocative R&B track that climbed to the top of the charts around the world this year and became the biggest pop hit. of the summer 2013.
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Source - The Guardian