Full Coverage: ‘Blurred Lines’ legal battle

Singer-songwriter John Hiatt was onstage several years ago at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica when he paused to introduce a new song to the audience.

Jazz may be miles away from pop in terms of financial power -- its intake roughly amounts to the change Pharrell Williams leaves behind in the couch cushions -- but its Twitter community reacted to this week’s “Blurred Lines” verdict, in which a jury compelled Williams and Robin Thicke to pay $7.4 million to the Gaye estate, like much of the music world: with a mostly appreciative indictment of Thicke, who is already easily pegged as an interloper for appropriating the sound of a legend like Marvin Gaye.

On his critically acclaimed 1968 solo album debut “Song Cycle,” singer-multi-instrumentalist-composer Van Dyke Parks included a song titled “Public Domain.”

Brian Wilson’s forthcoming studio album, “No Pier Pressure,” features the Beach Boys creative leader ‎collaborating with several guest musicians, including Blondie Chaplin, the South African guitarist and singer who briefly was a member of the Beach Boys in the 1970s.

After an eight-day trial, a verdict was reached that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” copied Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up.”

Alone in a Burbank studio, Pharrell Williams started by “surfing around” for a drumbeat.

So what effect will the “Blurred Lines” verdict have on the music industry?

A federal jury found Tuesday that the 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed on the Marvin Gaye chart-topper “Got to Give It Up,” awarding nearly $7.4 million to Gaye’s children.

With jury deliberations ongoing, a U.S.

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams have lost the first round in their battle with Marvin Gaye’s family in an ongoing debate over whether their 2013 megahit “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.”

Gaye’s family further claims in the lawsuit that pop-R&B crooner Thicke’s ‘Marvin Gaye fixation’ has led him to lift other works in his discography.

Robin Thicke claims he was a little blurry himself during the recording of the hit single “Blurred Lines,” according to a new deposition from the singer.

Does Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” sound too much like one of its disco-funk ancestors?

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams have made no secret of the fact that their massive summer hit “Blurred Lines” is influenced by the classic Marvin Gaye song “Got to Give it Up.”

He already did one late-night parody of the summer’s biggest hit, and now he’s at it again.