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Legal War Between Sony Music & Ultra Music Publishing Escalates With Clash Over Copyrights
Sony Music and Ultra Music Publishing's legal war is heating up with a new fight over copyrights that Ultra says Sony is exploiting without a license.
Sony Music Entertainment is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against the company by Patrick Moxey ‘s Ultra International Music Publishing late last year, claiming the suit was an act of “retaliation” against the major label after it filed its own lawsuit against the publishing outfit two years prior. Ultra Publishing claimed that after Sony’s alleged refusal, it ceased granting the music giant licenses to the company’s compositions, but that Sony nonetheless continued uploading tracks featuring Ultra Publishing-owned compositions to streaming services and selling them as digital downloads and physical releases, among other exploitations. “Moreover, Plaintiffs’ own songwriters and producers continue to write songs and collaborate with SME artists with the intention and expectation that the resulting sound recordings incorporating the underlying musical compositions will be commercially released — underscoring the obvious question of whether Plaintiffs’ attempted boycott of SME is in their songwriters’ best interest.”
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