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Entertainment & Sports

Apr. 18, 2012

Lawyers join forces to take on music labels

A coalition of lawyers have joined forces to take on the music industry's major labels, launching class action lawsuits seeking unpaid royalties from digital music sales. But the question remains, how much do the labels stand to lose?


By Erica E. Phillips


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A slow trickle of lawsuits against the music industry's major labels has begun to surge.


There are now so many claims against UMG Recordings Inc., Sony Music Entertainment Inc., Warner Music Group Corp. and EMI Music Inc. alleging underpaid royalties on digital music sales that attorney Daniel Warshaw uses a chart to keep track of them.


In recent months, Warshaw, a partner at Pears...

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