Recording Artists & Music Producers, Including Rob Zombie, Dave Mason, White Zombie & Whitesnake, File Class Action Lawsuit Against UMG Recordings Over Digital Music Download & Mastertone Ringtone Royalties.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against UMG Recordings, Inc. (“UMG Recordings” or “UMG” or “Defendant”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (styled Rob Zombie, a/k/a Robert Wolfgang Zombie, f/k/a Robert Cummings, White Zombie, Whitesnake, Whitesnake Productions (Overseas) Limited and Dave Mason v. UMG Recordings, Inc., Class Action Case No. 11-cv-2431), alleging, among other things, that UMG failed to properly account for and pay its recording artists and music producers for income it allegedly received and receives from licensees of its recorded music catalog for the sale of digital downloads and ringtone (or “mastertones”), according to the UMG Recordings Music Download & Mastertones Royalties class action lawsuit complaint.
The UMG Recordings Music Download & Ringtone Royalties class action lawsuit is reportedly brought on behalf of a putative class consisting of the following:
All persons and entities (but excluding UMG and any person, trust, firm, corporation or entity affiliated with or related to UMG) who entered into UMG (including its label and affiliates) production or recording agreements from January 1, 1965 to April 30, 2004 and who, along with their agents, successors in interest, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators, received royalties on, or financial credits or adjustments for, income received by UMG from Music Download Services and Mastertone Providers (hereinafter, the “Class”) at a rate less than the rate provided for licensing income in their contract with UMG.
The UMG Recordings Music Download & Ringtone Royalty class action lawsuit complaint reportedly asserts claims for alleged breach of contract, declaratory judgment, open book account and alleged violation of the unfair competition law.
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