In 2019, a team of artists– led by David Johansen of New York Dolls, John Lyon, and Paul Collins– submitted a class-action lawsuit versus Sony Music Entertainment, looking for control of their master recordings. The celebrations have actually currently gotten to a negotiation arrangement, court records acquired by Pitchfork program. The regards to the negotiation have actually not yet been revealed.
When gotten in touch with by Pitchfork, a lawyer for Sony Music Entertainment, Roy W. Arnold, provided no remark. Lawyers for the artists have actually not replied to Pitchfork’s ask for remark.
The artists based their initial issue on an area of the Copyright Act of 1976 that supplies musicians the chance to end gives of copyright possession 35 years after a recording’s preliminary launch. In the issue, the artists declared that Sony Music Entertainment was participating in copyright violation by declining “to allow any recording artist to take over control of the sound recordings or enter into an agreement with a different label for the exploitation of recordings, after the effective date of termination.”
