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Robin Thicke’s lawsuit claiming that Blurred Lines wasn’t stolen from Marvin Gaye’s Got to Give It Up hasn’t been well received by Gaye’s family as they now claim that he’s stolen TWO songs.
Earlier this week, the family claimed that Thicke not only stole the summer mega-hit but also committed copyright infringement on Gaye’s After the Dance for his own song Love After War.
Gaye’s family have set their sights on EMI April, the song publisher now owned by Sony/ATV that has business relationships with both sides.
EMI has reportedly breached a contract by failing to protect Gaye’s songs, attempting to intimidate the family against filing any legal action, failing to remain neutral when faced with a conflict of interest and attempting to turn public opinion against the family.
The Gaye family claim that the penalty for those acts should be EMI losing all profits on Blurred Lines and rights to administer the song catalog of Gaye.
In an interview before the court case, Robin Thicke had said: “Pharrell and I were in the studio and I told him that one of my favorite songs of all time was Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got to Give It Up.’
“I was like, ‘Damn, we should make something like that, something with that groove.’
“Then he started playing a little something and we literally wrote the song in about a half hour and recorded it.”
But changing his tune after the lawsuit was filed, he was asked by one journalist: “When you, when you wrote [Blurred Lines], do you like think of Marvin Gaye like when you write the music?” to which he gave a stern “no.”
The countersuit claims that the public has detected Gaye in Thicke’s other songs including the” similar bridge and identical lyrics from Marvin Gaye’s I Want You in Thicke’s similarly-themed work, Make U Love Me.
A spokesperson for Sony/ATV said in a statement that it hadn’t yet seen the claims. They added: “We have repeatedly advised the Gaye family’s attorney that the two songs in question have been evaluated by a leading musicologist who concluded that Blurred Lines does not infringe ‘Got To Give It Up.’
“We take our role in protecting the works of all of our songwriters from infringement very seriously.
“And while we very much treasure the works of Marvin Gaye and our relationship with the Gay family, we regret that they have been ill-advised in this matter.”