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By Stan Soocher
April 02, 2015

“Blurred Lines” Post-Verdict Posturing

After a California federal jury decided that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams' song “Blurred Lines” infringed on Marvin Gaye's 1970s hit song “Got To Give It Up,” “Blurred Lines” parties' litigator Howard King of L.A.'s Holmes, Paterno & Berliner vowed to appeal the $7.4 million copyright judgment. “We owe it to songwriters of the world, who are inspired by their predecessors, to make sure this verdict does not survive,” King said. But Gaye family trial lawyer Richard Busch of Nashville's King & Ballow claimed to our publication's sibling Litigation Daily, that there are no grounds for tossing out the verdict. Busch said. “If they could have proven that this was the copying of a genre or a feeling, they would have proven it during the two-week trial.”

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