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Sony Music Settles Whitney Houston Movie Lawsuit That Claimed Producers Never Paid For Songs

Sony Music dropped a lawsuit claiming the producers of Whitney Houston’s 2022 biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody didn't fully pay to use her songs.

The February lawsuit claimed that Anthem Films, Black Label Media and others behind the movie had signed a sync license agreement on Dec. 5, 2022 – less than ten days before the movie’s release – covering the use of Sony’s sound recordings of Houston’s songs, also including “Greatest Love of All,” “I’m Every Woman” and the titular “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” Sony argued that the producers did so because they essentially had to if they wanted to create “a biopic about the life and music of Whitney Houston.” After notifying Anthem of the problem, the company allegedly told Sony that it was waiting on funds from a tax credit owed by the state of Massachusetts.

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