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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: woof on April 20, 2011, 03:43:22 PM
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Apr 19, 9:57 PM EDT
Judge: No right to sell 'The Chronic' online
By ANTHONY McCARTNEY
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The new incarnation of Death Row Records does not have the rights to sell Dr. Dre's iconic rap album "The Chronic" digitally, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder ruling states that the rapper and producer has received far less money than he is due from online sales of the 1992 album, which also helped launch the career of Snoop Dogg.
The ruling does not call for a halt of digital sales of Dre's music, but entitles him to receive 100 percent of the proceeds of online sales, his attorney, Howard King, told The Associated Press.
The rapper, whose real name is Andre Young, sued WIDEawke Death Row Records last year, claiming it was improperly selling "The Chronic" digitally and using some of his music on compilation albums without his permission.
Snyder's ruling states the label, which bought the original Death Row Records' holdings out of bankruptcy, does not have the right to put Dr. Dre's music on compilation or any other albums.
"For years, Death Row Records forgot about Dre when they continued to distribute his music digitally and combined his hits with weaker Death Row tracks in an attempt to elevate the stature of their other artists," King wrote in a statement. "We are gratified that the federal court has unambiguously declared that Death Row has no right to engage in such tactics, and must hold all proceeds from these illicit distributions in trust for our client."
Phone and email messages for WIDEawake's attorney, Michael Holtz, was not immediately returned Tuesday evening.
The rapper has a long history of battling Death Row Records, a label he confounded but later left.
The most recent case he filed centered on his 1996 exit agreement with the label, which called for him to receive 18 percent royalties on his music created while at Death Row and gave him substantial authority over how the songs were used.
The agreement states that WIDEawake can only sell Dre's music in the format it appeared in before the deal. Another of Dre's attorneys, Stephen Rothschild, told Snyder during arguments in court on Monday that meant it could only appear in four formats: CD, cassette, vinyl and 8-Track.
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fucking greedy ass rich people
enough just isn't enough
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I never understood why dre aint fight to get ownership of death row after they took it from suge.
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Yeah its fucked up he sued them. Suge has nothing to do with wide awake so its pointless to sue them.
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fucking greedy ass rich people
enough just isn't enough
Why is Dre "greedy" for wanting money that he is entitled to from someone else releasing his music? They bought the catalogue, but that doesn't mean that all of the proceeds are theirs to keep without owing any royalties to the person whose music it is.
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Well, he has some of that Death Row money coming in finally.
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Wow ....So he'll get some money from the 500 digital downloads Wideawake has sold ....Big whoop .
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Anybody posting about how "Dre should not have sued" is just ignorant, probably broke as fuck and knows nothing about business, especially the music business. I guess that is why Dre keep gettin paid while we are here postin..Dont' matter how long it took, Dre still gettin paid.
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Yeah its fucked up he sued them. Suge has nothing to do with wide awake so its pointless to sue them.
Here's a thought. Maybe it isn't about Suge.
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Anybody posting about how "Dre should not have sued" is just ignorant, probably broke as fuck and knows nothing about business, especially the music business. I guess that is why Dre keep gettin paid while we are here postin..Dont' matter how long it took, Dre still gettin paid.
hes suing over 200 internet downloads (if that)
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it's all business
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LOL pussy ass Dre was too scared to sue Suge. He waited until he lost ownership.
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LOL pussy ass Dre was too scared to sue Suge. He waited until he lost ownership.
Even if this was true you'd still be a moron for making a statement like that. Dre sued them when Chronic 2000 was coming out and got all the unreleased tracks with his vocals that they remixed taken off the album.
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Yup. Dre was suing them when Suge still owned the company.
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So i guess EVERYBODY can move on now huh?
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Yeah its fucked up he sued them. Suge has nothing to do with wide awake so its pointless to sue them.
Here's a thought. Maybe it isn't about Suge.
exactly.
LOL pussy ass Dre was too scared to sue Suge. He waited until he lost ownership.
Even if this was true you'd still be a moron for making a statement like that. Dre sued them when Chronic 2000 was coming out and got all the unreleased tracks with his vocals that they remixed taken off the album.
yeah, dre sued death row a few times when suge was still the owner
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Dre is really a bitch!
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Dre is really a bitch!
ey Snoop... send me 60grand thru paypal my nigga... good lookin folks!
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fucking greedy ass rich people
enough just isn't enough
yeah. you can even hear the greed in his recent music lol
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good post/read thanks
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Dre is really a bitch!
Cos he wants money for shit that he made? lol ignorant muthafucka
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Here, more reasons to not buy Detox:
Dr. Dre should be glad that the music of his hay days is still being sold and distributed. What does he do? He puts an end to it. What a bitch.
He's a rich man, he could just let it all go. Instead of giving his fans the opportunity to hear unreleased music from those same hay days, he goes to court to keep all that great music in the vault.
Dr. Dre is one of the greatest producers of rap. People want to hear good music, especially his catalog from Death Row Records. He was in his prime. He must know that his fans feel that way. Instead, he goes on the radio telling Detox won't be an anticipointment, but yet he releases his very worst song ever as the single, followed by a collaboration with Swizz Beatz.
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LOL at Dre fighting old battles...just cant let go of the pain.
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I don't understand the "he's greedy" argument. If I made music, I'd feel entitled to the money it was making, because I made it, it would be my album. Can't hold that against Dre
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People can't be mad at Dre because he sued Death Row. He's sued Death Row several times since his departure nearly 15 years ago over claims of unpaid royalties. From what I've gather, I don't blame him for suing them. It's a shame that the dude help build that label, he leaves without all of his money owed to him, and y'all still refuse to pay him any royalties? Now that's fuck'd up! I just think that he wants what's owed to him and that's it. I ain't mad at that, especially if you're not being paid for your work. Yet, they wanna use his music to make money and don't wanna pay him for it or get his permission. Is that right? I mean, if I was WideAwake one of the first things I would have done was try to work out any issue between Death Row and Dr. Dre. Give the man his respect and money.
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"For years, Death Row Records forgot about Dre"
Thought that was a joke at first.
Anyways, do you people actually think this was about the money??? Dre doesn't give a fuck about the money, it's about getting what's yours and not letting these industry fools take advantage of you as they so often do.
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I was hoping maybe someday we could get to hear Chronic, Doggystyle etc instrumental only albums...oh well.
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Watched the lawsuits when they lost the dough
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Dre doesn't give a fuck about the money
He could of fooled me with his product placement in INAD and $500 headphones.