{"id":1457,"date":"2012-03-05T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/05\/popular-latina-music-star-graciela-beltran-sues-emi-music-inc-over-royalties-brings-class-action-through-her-attorneys\/"},"modified":"2012-03-05T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T17:12:06","slug":"popular-latina-music-star-graciela-beltran-sues-emi-music-inc-over-royalties-brings-class-action-through-her-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/03\/05\/popular-latina-music-star-graciela-beltran-sues-emi-music-inc-over-royalties-brings-class-action-through-her-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Latina Music Star Graciela Beltran Sues EMI Music, Inc. Over Royalties: Brings Class Action Through Her Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1006\" src=\"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/emi_logo-300x145-copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"160\" height=\"77\" \/><br \/>Popular Latina music star Graciela Beltran, by and through  her attorneys at Audet &amp; Partners, LLP, a San Francisco, California-based  trial law firm, and the Law Offices of Lopez &amp; Associates, has filed a class  action complaint (Case # CV121002) in the United States District Court for the  Northern District of California against EMI Music, Inc.   <!--more-->  The case arises out of  the alleged failure of EMI to pay the full royalty rates to artists such as Ms.  Beltran on revenue generated from the licensing of digital downloads and\/or  ringtones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the information we have received, it appears EMI has  failed to pay Ms. Beltran and its other artists the amount owed on the licensing  of songs for digital downloads and ringtones,&#8221; stated Beltran&#8217;s attorney Joshua  C. Ezrin of Audet &amp; Partners, LLP. &#8220;Graciela Beltran is bringing this action  to ensure all artists are properly paid for their work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Graciela Beltran  known as &#8220;La Reina Del Pueblo,&#8221; is from Costa Rica, a small town in the Mexican  state of Sinaloa, and she emigrated to the United States as a young child. She  started her career at a very young age as well, performing first for her  neighbors, then at restaurants and fiestas. In the intervening years, she has  performed at the White House, toured extensively, been featured in numerous  television and film appearances, and her compilation album with Selena, entitled  Las Reinas Del Pueblo, has sold 5 million copies worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/span><span class=\"normal\">Audet &amp; Partners<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Latina music star Graciela Beltran, by and through her attorneys at Audet &amp; Partners,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}