Warner Music and Dwight Yoakam Settle Their Copyright Battle
Warner Music Group and Dwight Yoakam have reached a preliminary settlement to end their contentious legal battle over the rights to his 1986 debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., weeks after the country legend said his label was trying to “desperately hang on” to his music.
In papers filed late night on Sunday in Los Angeles federal court, attorneys for both Yoakam and Warner said they had reached “an agreement in principle to settle this dispute” and asked for two additional weeks to finalize the deal.
Yoakam sued Warner Music last year, claiming the label had wrongly rejected his efforts to win back his music via the termination right – a provision of federal copyright law that allows artists regain their copyrights decades after selling them to a publisher or label.
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