Sony/ATV has reached a settlement with the family of Marvin Gaye that will ensure the company isn't implicated in a legal battle between the party and the team behind Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines.

Thicke, plus fellow Blurred Lines songwriters Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, a.k.a. T.I., made a pre-emptive move to sue Gaye's estate in August 2013, after the Motown singers family publicly claimed Thicke's song copied elements of Gaye's 1977 record Got to Give It Up.

Gaye's children Frankie ...