The music industry has many different legalities that are involved. Songwriters have many responsibilities and rights to songs. Recently in the music industry there have been a few incidents take place. I will be covering three recent legal controversies that took place with people involved in the music industry. Chris Brown was recently charged with robbery for stealing one of his fans phone. Drake is being sued by his ex-girlfriend for not giving her credit for a song that they worked on together. Court ruling that allows songwriters to receive higher percentages for song placements.
Drake has an amazing song “Marvin’s Room” which got a lot of buzz and did amazing on music charts. Ex-girlfriend Erika Lee, whom appears on the song in a phone conversation, claims that she is entitled to part ownership in the copyright in the song, copyright in the sound recording, and payment of songwriter royalties. If his ex-girlfriend is telling the truth she should be granted the rights of the song that she is entitled to.
Chris Brown is being accused of robbery for taking a phone from a fan that took a picture of him. This is a huge controversy because both the fan and Chris Brown are wrong. The fan needs to get permission from Chris Brown before just taking a photo of him. Chris Brown could have asked the fan to delete the photo instead of taking her phone out of her hand and driving off with it.
Recent court ruling allows songwriters to gain millions of dollars in royalties. Universal Music Group was denied an appeal by the Supreme Court. This ruling will affect record labels since the songwriters will now be taking a percentage of sales on a song that once went directly to the record label.
Every legal controversy mentioned is very important to know.
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