Pharrell and Thicke to pay millions to Marvin Gaye’s family

MARVIN Gaye’s family has won a copyright suit regarding the similarity of Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I.’s Blurred Lines and the soul icon’s Got to Give It Up.

A jury in the United States decided that the 2013 single by Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke breached the copyright of Gaye’s 1977 hit.

The family of the late soul singer has been awarded $7.3m (R89-million) in damages.

Thicke and Williams denied copying the hit.

Gaye died in April 1984, leaving his children the copyright to his music.

His children – Nona, Frankie and Marvin Gaye III – sued Thicke and Williams in 2013.

Here are the two songs, listen and you be the judge.