Marvin Gaye’s family earned $7.3 million earlier this month when a jury decided that Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up,” but Gaye’s loved ones continued to seek justice this week by officially filing an injunction preventing the sale of one of 2014’s top singles. “Blurred Lines” co-writer Pharrell Williams spoke out about the controversial lawsuit for the first time in an interview with the Financial Times on Thursday, calling the jury’s verdict a handicap to “any creator out there who is making something that might be inspired by something else.”

Gaye family attorney Richard Busch told Rolling Stone last week that they would be fighting for the prohibition of sales and distribution of “Blurred Lines” until they and the writers and performers of the popular single can agree on “how future monies that are received will be shared.” Gaye’s family wrote in an open letter that Gaye would have approved of their decision to seek justice because he was always “vigilant about safeguarding the artist’s rights” and “gave credit where credit is due.”

In his interview with the Financial Times, Williams explained that any similarities that his and Thicke’s song may bare to “Got to Give It Up” were the result of inspiration, not attempted replication. He stated that everything was inspired by something or someone,” and discouraging that inspiration may lead to the death of artistic creativity.

“The verdict handicaps any creator out there who is making something that might be inspired by something else. This applies to fashion, music, design… anything,” said Williams. “If we lose our freedom to be inspired, we’re going to look up one day and the entertainment industry as we know it will be frozen in litigation. This is about protecting the intellectual rights of people who have ideas.”

Producer Harvey Weinstein recently pointed out that if juries continue to give verdicts like the $7.3 million one made in favor of the Gaye family, iconic artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein wouldn’t have been able to create in today’s society without fear of legal ramifications.

Pharrell and Thicke don’t plan on surrendering in court, and their attorney told Rolling Stone, that the artists are “firm, rock solid, in the conclusion that they wrote this song independently from the heart and soul with no input from anyone, Marvin Gaye or anyone else.”