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By Brittany Spanos. In the letter, the siblings imagine how their father would have handled the situation. He also gave credit where credit is due.

Marvin Gaye’s Children: What Our Father Would Say About Lawsuit

Even though the outcome of the lawsuit favored the Gaye family, the children claim that all of this could have been avoided if Thicke and Williams had approached the family before releasing the single, especially since the similarities were deemed to be not coincidental. We would have welcomed a conversation with them before the release of their work.

This also did not happen. Thicke and Pharrell Williams lost the copyright suit on March 10th. We are so incredibly grateful for your support as well as the hard work and dedication of our amazing legal team and experts. We thank you all. We especially want to thank our mom Jan for her belief in what we were doing all along, and for her never ending support.

We are his children, but we too are his fans and we hold his music dear. Thicke and Mr. Williams, at all. The fact that they have openly acknowledged their respect and admiration for the song is public knowledge, and further proof gaye its resonance with an entirely new generation of music fans.

However, most songwriting begins with an organic approach; a songwriter brings his or her influences to the table and then works creatively from a blank slate in the crafting of their song to ensure originality and the integrity of their creation. If Mr. This did not happen. The jury has spoken. We feel this further amplifies the soundness of the verdict.

Like all music fans, we have an added appreciation for songs that touch us in mysterious ways. Great artists like our dad intentionally build their music to last, but we as the caretakers of such treasures, have an obligation to be vigilant about preserving the integrity of the music so that future generations understand its origins and feel its effect as the artist club, and to assure that it retains its value.

We feel as many do that, our father, Marvin Gaye, is an artist for the ages. That is what copyright laws help us do; they give people the incentive to write original songs and then help protect those songs. Our dad spent his life writing music- that is his legacy to us all- he wrote from his heart and was a brilliant songwriter, arranger, producer and one-of-a-kind vocalist.

Howard King, the attorney for Mr. We never for a minute suggested that Mr. With the digital age upon us, the threat of greater infringement looms for every fan. Rolling Stone is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Nona rights reserved.