Linda Perry, the former 4 Non Blondes frontwoman who went on to produce songs for Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Gwen Stefani, is suing Warner Music Group for royalties she believes she is owed on James Blunt's
Back To Bedlam, which came out on her imprint
Custard Records. Perry is suing for royalties on the album—which, according to the suit, has made WMG a cool $100 million—plus $5 million in damages, and she's saying that Warner Music Group "follows the far too familiar scenario involving a large multinational corporate record company which takes advantage of a small, independent production company." For its part, Warner says that it has always compensated the label in accordance with the contract the two parties agreed upon when Perry initially brought Blunt to WMG's attention, which sounds to me like code for "read the fine print, lady." [
BBC]
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Poison is suing Capitol Records over what the band believes are unpaid royalties from its entire tenure on the label. The band's rep claims that the suit is merely a CYA move so that they don't run out of the statute of limitations on claiming their cash, and that the two parties are trying to "work this out amicably." Maybe it's my melted-by-a-long-week brain, but I sense that "amicably" is code for "reality show"! Like Nothin' But A Cash Grab, where Bret Michaels and various Capitol accounting employees get in a wind tunnel and grab money swirling around them! Or maybe Don't Talk Dirty To Me, which follows CC Deville as he tries to be as nice to the honchos at the label as possible—and if he manages to make nice for 20 minutes, he wins back the royalties from a song? (The 20-minute time limit is in effect so each episode can end with a CC comedy routine, natch.) [
So that lighthearted, if kinda stupid, offer from Taco Bell to 50 Cent, in which the MexiMelt pushers offered to feed a restaurant and given $10,000 to charity in exchange for a 24-hour name change and a widget-inspired freestyle? Curtis has gotten wind of it, and he is is not pleased. "This is a sleazy and ill-conceived publicity stunt by Taco Bell's president, Greg Creed, whose disingenuous offer was leaked to the press before it was even presented to 50 Cent's agent yesterday," one of 50's PR reps told AllHipHop.com. Yes, how dare anyone try to garner attention from the use of your client's name without his permission! I mean, talk about nerve!
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