Marvin Gaye family prevails in case
LOS ANGELES: A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a $US5.3 million ($NZ7.3 million) judgement against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copying a Marvin Gaye song to create their 2013 smash Blurred Lines. By a 21 vote, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said Gaye’s 1977 song Got to Give It Up deserved ‘‘broad’’ copyright protection, and the March 2015 jury verdict in favour of Gaye’s three children could stand because there was ‘‘not an absolute absence of evidence’’ of similarity between the two songs. — Reuters