Robin Thicke & Pharell ordered to pay $7.3 million for copying Marvin Gaye’s song

  • By Olamide Onipede

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According to Breaking news reports, a Jury has found  Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke guilty of copying  Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up.”for their hit song..’Blurred Lines..They have been ordered to pay $7.3 million to the  Gaye’s family.

“Blurred Lines” which was the biggest hit of 2013 earned more than $5 million apiece for Thicke and Williams. Although both are credited as its songwriters, Williams wrote the song in about an hour in 2012, and the pair recorded it in one night.

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