{"id":4056,"date":"2021-02-19T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2021-02-19T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:25:49","slug":"truthful-court-finds-that-pharrell-williams-did-not-commit-perjury-in-blurred-lines-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/truthful-court-finds-that-pharrell-williams-did-not-commit-perjury-in-blurred-lines-case\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUTHFUL: Court Finds that Pharrell Williams did not Commit Perjury in \u2018Blurred Lines\u2019 Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free and Clear.<\/p>\n<p>Pharrell William&#8217;s &#8216;Blurred Lines&#8217; controversy has been put to rest as a judge ruled that the singer did not commit perjury in a November 2019 GQ interview. A judge has ruled that Williams did commit perjury in a sworn deposition from the 2015 lawsuit claiming his song  Blurred Lines had been plagiarized from Marvin Gaye&#8217;s hit \u2018Got To Give It Up\u2019. Williams claimed he &#8216;reverse engineered&#8217; the song from Got To Give It Up in a 2019 GQ interview. According to Marvin Gaye&#8217;s family, this contradicted Pharrell&#8217;s earlier claims that he produced Blurred Lines based on Gaye&#8217;s vocals. Gaye&#8217;s family claimed he perjured himself in order to get him to pay its legal fees. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/blurred-lines.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/blurred-lines-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/blurred-lines-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/blurred-lines.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pharrell further discussed in the 2019 interview his music production process in that interview where he said that he was aiming to create a similar experience to Marvin Gaye&#8217;s track but not exactly copying the song. He added that this process got him into a legal battle with members of Gaye&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>The judge cited the &#8216;reverse engineering&#8217; example and stated that Pharrell&#8217;s explanation of the process was inconsistent with the claims of a deposition made by Gaye&#8217;s family. Furthermore, the judge stated that Gaye&#8217;s family had shown inconclusive evidence and that there were several inconsistencies in their claims of perjury and the content of Pharrell Williams 2019 interview with GQ Magazine. <\/p>\n<p>Have you read the 2019 GQ article featuring Pharrell? Do you agree with the court\u2019s decision? Leave your comments down below.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free and Clear. Pharrell William&#8217;s &#8216;Blurred Lines&#8217; controversy has been put to rest as a judge ruled that the singer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,623],"tags":[1669,1668,1435,1666,1667],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}