Pharrell Williams did not commit perjury during the 2015 court case on whether his collaboration with Robin Thicke, ‘Blurred Lines’, infringed on copyright.As reported by People, the ruling comes after Marvin Gaye’s family accused Williams, Thicke and T.I.
of ripping off Gaye’s 1977 hit ‘Got To Give It Up’. In 2015, the court found that Williams and Thicke were liable for copyright infringement, meaning they had to give Gaye’s family half of the song’s royalties, in addition to make a one-off payment of £4million ($5.3million) in damages.
An appeal was later filed, but denied in 2018.In 2019, Williams gave an interview with Rick Rubin for GQ where he said he “reversed-engineered” Gaye’s song, which Gaye’s family then used in a subsequent.
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