Robin Thicke loses $7.3MILLION lawsuit over Blurred Lines copyright claim

That's gotta smart.


by Emmeline Saunders |
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Robin Thicke's massively offensive yet hellishly catchy 2013 hit Blurred Lines was a direct rip-off of one of Marvin Gaye's songs from the 1970s – that's what a court in LA has ruled, anyway.

The song, which made a lot of people incredibly uncomfortable with lines like 'I know you want it', has more than a coincidental likeness to Marvin's 1977 hit Got To Give It Up, meaning Thicke and producer Pharrell Williams now face a $7.3million fine payable to Gaye's family.

However, Pharrell's rep has suggested they will apply for an appeal, saying Blurred Lines was "created from his heart, mind and soul and the song was not taken from anyone or anywhere else".

The judge ruled that while rapper T.I. appeared on the single, he was not responsible for the copyright infringement.

It's just the latest in a long series of bad luck for old Thickesy – last year his wife Paula Patton left him and his album, er, Paula, only sold 530 copies in the UK in its first week.

Still. Better get writing some more awful pop music if you want to pay off that bill, Thicke.

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