Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines could be taken off sale, following a court ruling that it infringed upon the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit Got To Give It Up.
Blurred Lines songwriters – Pharrell Wiliams, TI and Thicke – have already been ordered to pay Gaye’s family $7.3m in damages for the infringement. Now lawyers say they want to stop sales of the song altogether.
Attorney Richard Busch, who represented Gaye’s family, told Rolling Stone: “We’ll be asking the court to enter an injunction prohibiting the further sale and distribution of Blurred Lines unless and until we can reach an agreement with those guys on the other side about how future monies that are received will be shared. We’ll be doing that in about a week or so.”
Busch added: “We didn’t start this fight” – a reference to a preemptive suit filed by Blurred Lines songwriters in 2013, which claimed the hit single was “strikingly different” to Got To Give It Up – “They started this war and we just finished it.”
There has been no comment from a representative for Thicke, Williams and TI.
