Music Week poll: Blurred Lines verdict unfair

RHIAN JONES

Nearly three quarters of respondents to a Music Week poll disagree with the ruling that decided Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I.’s Blurred Lines breached the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s Got To Give It Up.

Gaye’s children have been awarded $7.3m in damages, with their lawyer, Richard Busch, alleging that Thicke and Williams copied the song, released in 1977, deliberately.

However, both Williams and Thicke deny the accusations, and have detailed the thinking behind their composition of the track ...

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