Whose family received $7.4m royalties from Pharrell Williams/Robin Thicke after a legal claim in 2015 for illicit use of the song Got to Give it Up?
Blurred Lines cover of the song. Blurred Lines "Blurred Lines" is a single written and performed by American recording artists Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharrell Williams. Produced by Pharrell, it serves as the lead single from Thicke's album of the same name. It was released on March 26, 2013 through Pharrell's label Star Trak Recordings. Recorded in 2012, the song's percussion ideas were primarily inspired by the Marvin Gaye song "Got to Give It Up", and apart from T.I.'s rap, was entirely the work of Williams. However, Thicke clearly laid claim to writing credits on the track according to a Reuters article.
Got to Give It Up (2010) and "Paul" (2011). The song has also featured in the television shows "The Wire", "True Blood", and "Scandal". The 2013 hit single "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and song co-writer T.I. was the subject of a lawsuit for allegedly copying "Got to Give It Up". Thicke originally told the public both he and Pharrell were in the recording studio and suddenly Thicke told Pharrell "Damn, we should make something like that, something with that groove" and they wrote the song in less than an hour. However, Thicke later claimed this was all a lie and the song