The pair must jointly pay $2.8 million, with Thicke also paying an additional $1.7 million and Williams an additional $357,630, while 50 per cent of future royalties from the song will be paid to the Gaye family.
The sum was later reduced, but the pair still appealed the ruling in 2016.Įarlier this year, a judge upheld the original ruling, resulting in this new amended judgment. The judge ordered Thicke and Williams to pay $7.4 million to the family. The Gaye family, who own the copyright to Marvin Gaye’s songs, countersued, resulting in a legal battle that initially concluded in March 2015, when a judge ruled in favour of the family. In August 2013, following an accusation by the Gaye family that the song borrowed from Got to Give It Up, Thicke and Williams filed a lawsuit to try and affirm that their song did not infringe copyright. Thicke and Williams have earned $5 million each from the song. Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke have been ordered to pay a total of nearly $5 million (€4.4 million) to the family of Marvin Gaye, in a final judgment in the plagiarism case that found similarity between their song Blurred Lines and Gaye’s song Got to Give It Up.īlurred Lines reached the top of the charts in the US and UK in 2013, becoming Thicke’s biggest hit to date and eventually generating a total of $16.6 million in revenue.
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