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Robin Thicke sued first to protect Blurred Lines. It ended with him paying Marvin Gaye's family $5.3 million and handing them half the song's royalties forever In the video below, Thicke and Pharrell under oath, on tape, answering who really wrote it Blurred Lines was the biggest song of 2013. Thicke told magazines he wrote it in about half an hour Marvin Gaye's children said it sounded too much like their father's 1977 song Got to Give It Up So in August 2013, before the family could sue, Thicke and Pharrell went to court first, asking a judge to declare they had copied nothing Then came the depositions Thicke testified he had a drug and alcohol problem for the whole year and "didn't do a sober interview." He admitted he didn't really help write the song Pharrell said he was "in the driver's seat." Asked whose words were in the lyrics, he answered: "Mine" The jury didn't buy their side. In March 2015 it awarded Gaye's family $7.4 million The judge cut it to $5.3 million, then added the part that hurts most: 50% of the song's future royalties go to the Gaye family The appeals court upheld it in 2018 They went to court to protect the song. They walked out without half of it Did they steal Marvin Gaye's song, or did the court punish them for copying a feeling?