Last year Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against the Estate of Marvin Gaye to prevent the estate from suing them for copying elements of Marvin Gaye's 'Got to Give It Up' for their smash hit single 'Blurred Lines [click here if you missed that].'
They lost…
Yesterday a jury in Los Angeles ruled in favor of the Estate of Marvin Gaye and ordered Pharrell and Robin Thicke to pay the family $7.4 million.
Blurred Lines stayed on top of the Billboard 100 chart for 10 consecutive weeks earning Pharrell and Robin Thicke $5 million apiece and $16.5 million total.
