In 2013 Robin Thicke released a music album named “Blurred Lines” it contained a song with the same name. The Song ‘Blurred Lines” became the number one song on the music billboard 200. The song became a sensation all over the world and it earned Robin Thicke millions of dollars. The musician and his producer Pharrell Williams were riding on a cloud of success until they were accused of committing copyright infringement. The family of a legendary musician started the process of suing Thicke and Williams claiming that the money making song was based off of a song that was released by Marvin Gaye in 1977 named “Got to Give it Up”. The Gaye family claimed that Thicke and Williams committed copyright infringement because the “Blurred Lines” song had too many similarities in the hook, keyboard-bass interplay, lyrics and theme of the song. The legal concept that comes in to play here is copyright infringement. The song at questioned broke the law because it had likeness of another song and that Thicke used the former song to make is million dollar song “Blurred Lines”. The musician Thicke stole the intellectual property of Marvin Gaye when he created the “Blurred Lines” song. In a business such as a record company they type of trouble can easily happen. Managers that work in fields where copyrights are attached to every product that the business releases should be have a plan in place to identify copyright infringement. Millions and millions of songs have been created and there is n way of knowing if a certain theme of lyric would match one of those songs that has already been created. This case dealing with Robin Thicke could of avoided if managers at the recording studio took the time to research songs from the past and see if there were any similarities between “Blurred Lines” and any song from the past. In the world today this would not be a hard task and this is an