Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' and Marvin Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up'
The family of Marvin Gaye, who died in 1984 after being shot to death by his father, went after Thicke along with Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I., the collaborators on the smash-hit 2013 single.
Source : CNN
T.I was cleared from the suit, but Thicke and Williams were ordered in 2015 to pay Gaye's estate more than $7 million on the grounds that their song infringed on Gaye's 1977 hit. That judgment was reduced to $5.3 million and the pair appealed the verdict.
Last year the five-year court battle ended with Gaye's family being awarded a final judgment of nearly $5 million.
Roy Orbison's 'Oh, Pretty Woman' and 2 Live Crew's 'Pretty Woman'
This case made it all the way to the Supreme Court.
The "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" rap group sampled Orbison's classic tune and ran afoul of the song's publisher, Acuff-Rose.
In 1994 the courts ruled that the rap song was a parody and therefore qualified for fair use.
Spirit's 'Taurus' and Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven'
Filed in 2014, this suit claimed that Led Zeppelin took the opening section of what is now one of rock music's most famous epics from a song titled "Taurus" by a lesser-known band that toured with Led Zeppelin in their early days.
It was was filed on behalf of musician/songwriter Randy Craig Wolfe, a Spirit band member who was known professionally as "Randy California."
In April 2016 a US district court judge in Los Angeles ruled that there was enough to proceed with a copyright trial before a jury against Led Zeppelin's surviving members -- lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page, who are credited with composing 1971's "Stairway to Heaven."
Led Zeppelin won the suit, but last year the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new trial, saying the original judge gave "erroneous jury instructions."
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