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Salt-N-Pepa Sues UMG to Regain Masters, Says Label Is Holding Catalog ‘Hostage’
Salt-N-Pepa filed a lawsuit to get the duo's music masters back from its record label UMG, saying the company is violating copyright law.
“UMG has, in fact, halted exploitation of the relevant sound recordings in the United States, thereby effectively demonetizing plaintiffs’ catalogue,” wrote Salt-N-Pepa’s attorneys from the law firm Blank Rome. “In a stunning act of retaliation, UMG has pulled their songs from all major platforms in the U.S., punishing them for asserting those rights and silencing decades of culture-shifting work,” the reps add. The provision also played a significant role in Cher ’s royalty battle with Sonny Bono ’s widow, in which a judge ruled that termination rights didn’t trump the couple’s divorce settlement.
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