When rapper Eminem’s former production company convinced the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last year that recording companies owed him licensing royalties for digital downloads of his music, Universal Music Group downplayed the decision. It said the case “only concerns the language of one specific recording agreement.”
Maybe not. Since then lawyers at Phillips, Erlewine & Given and Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein have filed two putative class actions against Universal over digital download royalties with high-profile named plaintiffs Rob Zombie (“Dargula”) and the estate of Rick James (“Superfreak”). In a decision Tuesday a federal judge in San Francisco denied motions to dismiss or transfer the cases. (Hat tip: The Hollywood Reporter.)
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