"Blurred Lines" sales asked to be banned by Gaye family
Late Tuesday afternoon, the family of Marvin Gaye asked a federal judge to block the sale and performance of “Blurred Lines,” the 2013 hit written by Pharrell Williams and co-performed by Robin Thicke. Last week, a Los Angeles jury awarded the Gaye family $7.4 million in damages and determined that Thicke and Williams had infringed on Gaye’s copyright for the 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up.”
The Gaye family’s lawyers asked for a permanent injunction, but said they weren’t looking to eradicate new sales of the song entirely. (Too bad, in a way, because some of us would be happy if that particular earworm died an inglorious radio death.) Rather, they wanted the injunction as a way to begin negotiations over royalties, the Los Angeles Times reported.
This family is very cruel and smart at the same time. It they sued Blurred Line before it became a WW smash, they would get less money to none. They kept quite until blurred line became one of the most successful singles, they sued. Now see what they got. Million dollars of course. They can have a fancy life now
can they just leave him alone?