<text>  CNNRobin Thicke and Pharrell Williams didnt just blur the lines, they crossed them, a California jury ruled this week. Their song Blurred Lines ripped off the Marvin Gaye soul classic Got to Give It Up, jurors found, ordering the performers to pay millions for copyright damages and infringement. Its not the first time singers have turned to the courts to settle an accusation of musical theft. Talk about getting blasted: Thicke and Williams were ordered to pay 7.4 million. Their song: . Marvin Gayes: . Tom Petty stands his ground: Young British pop sensation Sam Smiths 2014 tune Stay With Me has a riff in the chorus similar to that of the 1989 Tom Petty hit I Wont Back Down. Reports say the two settled out of court, and the official credits now list Petty as a co-writer of the Smith song. Petty says there are no hard feelings. Sam Smiths song: . Tom Pettys: . Who ya gonna call? My lawyer! The 1980s rocker Huey Lewis accused Ray Parker Jr. of copying a Ghostbusters song riff from the 1984 hit I Want a New Drug by his band, Huey Lewis and the News. Reports at the time said they settled and signed a confidentiality agreement. In 2001, Parker accused Lewis of breaking it in a televised interview. The movie theme song: . Huey Lewis and the News: . Cant you hear, cant you hear the flute riff? Australian band Men at Work lost a case that all but accused them of stealing from children. A court found that the flute solo in their global hit Down Under had plagiarized the childrens tune Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree, written for the Scouting organization the Girl Guides. It was the publisher of the song, Larkin Music, that sued. Marion Sinclair, who wrote Kookaburra in 1934, died in 1988. Men at Work: . The childrens song: . Yes, theres a problem. Vanilla Ice hit it big for the first and only time with Ice Ice Baby in 1990, rapping over a catchy bass riff that sounded suspiciously like the one in the Queen and David Bowie hit Under Pressure. Reports at the time said a lawsuit was settled out of court. Vanilla Ice: . Queen and David Bowies tune: . Not free to do whatever you want. Some fans of the Beatles spoof band the Rutles noticed what they thought were similarities between the Oasis hit Whatever and the Neil Innes tune How Sweet to be an Idiot. Headlines suggested that Innes was going to sue Oasis, but in a 2013 interview, the songwriter said it was the music publisher EMI who took action and settled out of court, giving a quarter of the monies from Whatever to Innes and a quarter to EMI. Innes later winked at the incident in the opening notes of the song Shangri-La. Oasis: . Neil Innes, 14 years earlier: . If everybody had their own tune: Theres some controversy about how the Beach Boys first big hit, Surfin U.S.A., came to be written since the melody seems to be lifted straight from the Chuck Berry single Sweet Little Sixteen. Its listed now as having been written by the Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Berry. On his website, Berry calls Surfin U.S.A. a cover of his tune. The Beach Boys: . Chuck Berry: . Not so fine: One of the most famous copyright disputes in music history targeted former Beatle George Harrisons song My Sweet Lord, which was found to have copied Hes So Fine by the girl group the Chiffons. Harrison was ordered to pay nearly 2 million and was quoted as saying he never made any money off the song -- but he struck back with This Song, a hit about the incident. It included the line: As far as I know, it dont infringe on anyones copyright. The song that got Harrison sued: . The Chiffons: . And Harrisons song about the dispute: . CNNs Todd Baxter, Nick Hunt, Andrew Carey and Tommy Evans contributed to this report. 