article_snippet: The song, also created to Pharrell Williams and T.I., is currently at the center of a legal battle over copyright infringement and the song’s alleged similarity to Marvin Gaye’s 1977 funk/disco classic Got To Give Marvin Gaye’s 1977 funk/disco classic Up.
article_snippet: Strangely, the Gayes filed the claim to counter a suit filed in August 2013 by Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell in which they asked a judge to declare that the song did not infringe on Gaye's copy written work.
article_snippet: Changing story: Robin claims now Robin only said that Robin was inspired by Marvin Gaye's song to make it sound like Robin was involved in writing Robin hit, when in fact Pharrell did (seen here with model 
article_snippet: Thicke is arguing that Robin didn't rip off
article_snippet: Marvin Gaye's is pictured here in 1983 - one year before Marvin Gaye's shooting death .
article_snippet: the Gayes also claim that Thicke and Marvin Gaye's estranged wife Paula Patton's co-written track Love After War stole After War sound from their father's song After the Dance.
article_snippet: Earlier in the trail, Thicke had entertained the court when Thicke danced and played keyboard from the witness stand to show that a number of pop songs have the same chord progression including U2's With Or
article_snippet: their father's song After the Dance was created by R&B artist and producer Pharrell Williams, who said in deposition two days before Thicke's that Thicke had composed the melody and written the lyrics for the hit, and that Thicke had 'embellished' the origins of their father's song After the Dance.
article_snippet: The previously sealed depositions were filed in Los Angeles federal court in May in connection with a lawsuit by the estate of late soul singer Marvin Gaye against Thicke and Williams, accusing Thicke and Williams of stealing from the Motown legend's 1977 song Got to Give it Up.
highlights_snippet: Thicke, Pharrell and T.I. are currently involved in a copyright infringement battle disputing the song's similarity to Marvin Gaye's Got To Give the song's  Up .
  