Marvin Gaye’s Kids SLAP T.I. With Lawsuit!!!
Now that the Gaye’s have successfully won the Blurred Lines lawsuit, they’re taking things to the next lever and now Marvin Gaye’s Kids SLAP T.I. With Lawsuit!
They will stop at NOTHING to get paid off the success of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” single that had copied elements of Gaye’s track Got to “Give It Up” for their 2013 chart hit and they were ordered to pay $7.3 million.
Now CelebNMusic247.com has this report since the Gaye kids have filed new legal paperwork asking a judge to hold rapper T.I. accountable for copyright infringement in the “Blurred Lines” case.
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The jury had earlier decided that the pair’s collaborator, rapper T.I., was not accountable because his verse in Blurred Lines had been added into the track after Thicke and Williams had written and recorded the song.
However, the Gaye family’s lawyer, Richard Busch, filed a motion on Tuesday asking a judge to amend the jury verdict to include T.I., real name Clifford Harris, Jr., as well as Interscope Records and Universal Music, claiming they are all liable for copyright infringement.
The motion, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, reads, “As a matter of law, all members of the distribution chain are liable for copyright infringement, including co-writer of the song Blurred Lines, Clifford Harris, Jr. and the Interscope Parties… accordingly, the Gayes’ request that the Court amend the jury’s verdict to impose liability… on Clifford Harris, Jr. and the Interscope Parties, for their infringement of the musical composition Got to Give it Up.”
Thicke and Williams plan to contest the ruling, while Gaye’s heirs are hoping to halt future sales of Blurred Lines until a new royalty payment scheme has been negotiated.
