Why Eminem May Not Get $’s From Universal Lawsuit & Why Others Artists May Not Collect Either
Despite his team winning a lawsuit against Universal Music Grpup over digital download royalty payments that some estimate could lead to a $30 million payout, Eminem may not receive any of the money from an eventual settlement. Why no cash for Eminem?
The rapper declined to be part of the original lawsuit, so his former production company FBT sued UMG by proxy. "He wouldn’t get a percentage of those damages,” FBT manager Joel Martin, told Forbes. “He’d have to go to court or negotiate with the record company.” Eminem could use the court decision as a framework Eminem to negotiate how own settlement, however.
Why didn't Eminem join the lawsuit or isn't at least rushing to collect his share now that the courts have ruled against UMG. And why aren't dozens of superstars rushing to file lawsuits of their own. For many, including several artist representatives that spoke to Hypebot privately, it's because their afraid to sue the labels that control so much of their money generating catalog and in some cases future releases. Instead they're laying low and letting someone else fight the battle.
Some artists, howwver, are unwilling to wait. Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Whitesnake and Dave Mason have filed a class-action suit against Universal in the United States District Court in San Francisco. Several other attorneys including at least one major nation class action specialist are also exploring similar lawsuits.
Hypebot is great, but the spelling errors are becoming increasingly annoying and unattractive.
Complaining about grammatical errors is the lowest form of criticism. You try running a time-sensitive, news-based operation and see how well you do. Even the New York Times with its leigions of fact checkers and proof readers has errors, so why hold a blog to a higher standard? Plus it’s time consuming enough just to get the facts right. For instance:
E isn’t getting any money for one resaon: the case did not involve his contract, but the contract between the production company and UNI.
No, other hertiage artists will not be benifiting from this case because the contract in question was very unusual, I have been told, by the lawyers on the NARM panel who discussed this case at length. Future artiste will not benefit from this case, b/c lables have now plugged the loophole that this case snuk through.
Weep not for artists on this one. It’s a rare case where the label was right but lost anyway. Weep not for the lables either, they win plenty of cases where they are dead wrong.
Still, they’re and their is a bit of a doozy, and and Grpup is in bold and right at the top (unless Universal have changed their name and I missed it, in which case ignore that one)
In an article of less than 500 words surely it is re-read at least once before posting?
More haste, less speed… and no, there is nowt wrong with criticising grammatical errors, spelling mistakes or typos in publications… p!sses me off when The Guardian do it, so why shouldn’t it p!ss me off here? It even p!sses me off when I do it in comments or blogs or emails to people.
Love language… respect language… it is good 🙂
Your spelling, punctuation and grammar are atrocious. Stop making excuses. I could personally copyedit the entire thing in about 15 minutes, but you’re probably thinking it doesn’t matter to people and you’re obviously too cheap to pay for copyediting.
I’d fail a Grade 9 student for this crap.
Please, at least look at your spellchecking if you won’t bother to learn literacy skills.