The BBC report says basically the same thing but it seems to say that Sony accused Popovich of forging the entire logo agreement rather than merely "trumping it up."
> He'll be able to afford a bigger turkey next year :-)
>
> CLEVELAND (AP) — Sony Music must pay the founder of a
> small record company $5 million for failing to put his
> company's logo on reissues of Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of
> Hell" album, a federal appeals court ruled.
>
> Steve Popovich, 65, who started Cleveland International
> Records in 1977 and soon afterward signed the chubby
> singer named Marvin Lee Aday, persuaded Epic Records to
> release the wildly successful album.
>
> Epic was owned at the time by CBS. Sony, which bought out
> CBS Records, paid $6.7 million to Popovich and his former
> partners in 1998 to settle a lawsuit over royalties from
> the album.
>
> The settlement required Sony to place the Cleveland
> International logo on future Meat Loaf albums but Sony did
> not add the logo to "Bat Out of Hell" for more than a
> year.
>
> In a 2-1 decision Wednesday, a panel of the 6th U.S.
> Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a federal
> jury's decision in 2005 awarding Popovich an extra $5
> million in damages.
>
> "I worked too hard for them and made them too much money
> to get robbed now, in the autumn of my life," he said.
>
> Cleveland International's roster also includes
> singer/songwriter David Allan Coe and an array of polka
> artists including Grammy winners Brave Combo and the late
> Frankie Yankovic.
>
> A call Thursday to Sony Music in New York was answered
> with a message that the offices were closed until Monday.
>
> Sony has claimed that the logo omission was a mistake that
> later was corrected. In court documents, Sony also accused
> Popovich of trying to get money out of the company by
> trumping up the logo agreement.
>
> "Bat Out of Hell," operatic in tone, but guitar rock
> through and through, has sold more than 30 million copies
> worldwide, according to court records.
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