{"id":3895,"date":"2013-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/weird-al-yankovic-and-sony-settle-5-million-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T00:00:00","slug":"weird-al-yankovic-and-sony-settle-5-million-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/weird-al-yankovic-and-sony-settle-5-million-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weird Al&#8217; Yankovic and Sony Settle $5 Million Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8f\/AlYankovicByKristineSlipson.jpg\/220px-AlYankovicByKristineSlipson.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"325\" \/><br \/>Sony has settled with &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic for an undisclosed amount  following the parodist&#8217;s attempt to sue his record label for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/weird-al-sues-sony-alleged-royalty-funny-business\/\">$5 million in underpaid royalties<\/a>.  Their legal battle hit court in March of 2012, though the two parties  had been sparring behind closed doors since early 2010. An audit by  Yankovic&#8217;s Ear Booker company at the time uncovered dozens of  bookkeeping offenses, but the lion&#8217;s share had to do with digital media.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Fun  as it is to read sentences like, &#8220;The documentation provided by Sony  revealed that Sony failed to pay all of the publishing royalties due for  physical sales of albums Running With Scissors and Poodle Hat,&#8221; the real beef has to do with iTunes (etc.) and YouTube. In regard to the former, a 2012 suit between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/universal-settles-influential-eminem-digital-revenue-lawsuit\/\">Eminem and Universal<\/a> redefined the artist-label royalties percentage breakdown. As for the  latter, Yankovic says he saw no revenue at all from clips like &#8220;White  &amp; Nerdy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was formally dismissed on Monday,  December 16. For more serious business from music&#8217;s pre-eminent  funnyman, look back at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/weird-al-yankovic-looks-back-at-20-years-of-smells-like-nirvana\/\">20 years of &#8220;Smells Like Nirvana&#8221;<\/a> with the man himself, and revisit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/tough-questions-weird-al-yankovic\/\">SPIN&#8217;s 2011 &#8220;Tough Questions for &#8216;Weird Al.'&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has settled with &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic for an undisclosed amount following the parodist&#8217;s attempt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}