In 2013, Marvin Gaye's children Nona, Frankie and Marvin Gaye III sued the Robin Thicke and Pharell saying they stole the music to Blurred Lines from their father hit "Got to Give It Up outright".
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A jury awarded Marvin Gaye's children $7.4million on Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father's music to create Blurred Lines. The jury decided that the family should receive $4million in
damages and $3.4 million in profits from the song, with Thicke forced to pay $1.7million from his own pocket and Pharrell $1.6million meanwhile Thicke and Pharell made only a staggering $16million from the song.
'Right now, I feel free,' an emotional Nona said after theverdict. 'Free from ... Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke's chains
and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.'
. A jury awarded Marvin Gaye's children $7.4million on Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father's music to create Blurred Lines. The jury decided that the family should receive $4million in
damages and $3.4 million in profits from the song, with Thicke forced to pay $1.7million from his own pocket and Pharrell $1.6million meanwhile Thicke and Pharell made only a staggering $16million from the song.
'Right now, I feel free,' an emotional Nona said after theverdict. 'Free from ... Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke's chains
and what they tried to keep on us and the lies that were told.'
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