Marvin Gaye Heirs Oppose Rehearing in ‘Blurred Lines’ Case

Marvin Gaye’s heirs want a federal appeals court to reject Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’s request to throw out a verdict that their hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed a 1977 Gaye release.

Gaye’s heirs made that argument in a May 10 filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The filing responded to a petition that an expanded panel of judges, known as an en banc rehearing, reconsider a earlier three-judge panel decision that Thicke and Williams infringed Gaye’s copyright.

Thicke and Williams say that “Blurred Lines” and Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” are so dissimilar ...