The Blurred Lines lawsuit is truly over, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams owe $5 million
It’s been a long and crazy trip, with extremely important and potentially destructive implications for the music industry, but it’s all finally over. After an appeals court upheld the original verdict in the lawsuit between the Marvin Gaye estate and “Blurred Lines” writer Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke back in March, the Gaye estate has been awarded a final judgement of $5 million. That’s a slight dip from the $7 million that Thicke and Williams were originally ordered to pay in 2015, when a court decided that “Blurred Lines” was a ripoff of Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up,” and it’s slightly better for Thicke and Williams than the reduced $5.3 million judgement that came later, but $5 million is still $5 million. Gaye’s family also gets interest on damages on half of all royalties to “Blurred Lines” going forward.