Blurred Lines lawsuit settlement, according to a certain US judge, must be done in court. Marvin Gaye's family has claimed that Robin Thicke's hit single, which also features Pharrell Williams, stole some elements of the famous soul singer's 1977 track, "Got to Give It Up."
District judge, John A. Kronstadt, was the one who made the ruling regarding this particular plagiarism dispute, after reviewing the conflicting analyses by the experts who were selected by Williams and Thicke and Gaye's family.
Williams and Thicke had sought a ruling on Thursday that their track, "Blurred Lines" did not infringe on copyrights to the famous Gaye song.
However, the judge has determined that there is a genuine dispute about whether some musical elements were quite similar between the two songs. Some of the elements that were quite the same were the bass lines, signature phrases, vocal melodies, hooks, and keyboard chords.
When Kronstadt made his ruling, he ordered that the analysis of the two songs must be made by a jury, based on how the compositions appear on sheet music, instead of focusing on how the two songs, "Got to Give It Up" and "Blurred Lines" sound to their listeners.
The trial was already scheduled on February 10th in Los Angeles.
The attorney hired by Thicke and Williams, Howard King, wrote in an email that was addressed to the Associated Press that the ruling was actually not a surprise. Still, he was pretty confident that the world-famous musicians would win the Blurred Lines lawsuit settlement trial.
King wrote, "Since the compositions at issue are completely different. We remain confident of prevailing a trial."
A representative for the Gaye's children, namely, Marvin Gaye III, Nona, and Frankie, has not given a comment on this ruling to date.
Moreover, Thick admitted just last month that he was actually not the lyricist behind "Blurred Lines." According to the court papers that were filed in connection with the Blurred Lines lawsuit settlement, the singer was a bit high on painkillers and alcohol last year, and revealed that he may have exaggerated his contribution to the hit track.
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