Robin Thicke & Pharrell Williams plan to contest Blurred Lines trial verdict
Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams are planning to contest the verdict of their two-week plagiarism trial after a jury in Los Angeles found the pair guilty of lifting hooks and melody from Marvin Gaye's 1977 number one Got To Give It Up for their 2013 hit Blurred Lines.
Thicke and Williams were ordered to hand over $7.4 million (GBP4.9 million) to Gaye's kids in court on Tuesday (10Mar15), but their lawyer, Howard King, has revealed the songwriters plan to appeal or seek a retrial if the judge overseeing the case denies a motion requesting the verdict be set aside.
King insists his clients maintain Blurred Lines was an original
song created solely by them, and he claims jurors may have been
convinced otherwise by expert testimony which should have been
inadmissible in court.
The attorney says, "Based upon their own feelings that they created
Blurred Lines from their own hearts and souls and no one else, and
based on feedback from other prominent songwriters, they (Thicke
and Williams) feel they owe it to the creative world to make sure
this verdict does not stand."
Meanwhile, the Gaye family's lawyer, Richard Busch, is seeking a
court injunction against further distribution of Blurred Lines
based on Tuesday's verdict.