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Wilbury 12:45 am UTC 11/25/07 |
| In reply to: | Popovich vs Sony - daveake 10:25 am UTC 11/23/07 |
| Graphic design stikes again. > 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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