{"id":2653,"date":"2014-02-21T19:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T03:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2014-02-21T19:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T03:07:21","slug":"lawsuit-filed-in-ny-charges-sony-music-cheated-american-idol-contestants-out-of-royalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/21\/lawsuit-filed-in-ny-charges-sony-music-cheated-american-idol-contestants-out-of-royalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit filed in NY charges Sony Music cheated &#8216;American Idol&#8217; contestants out of royalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sony-music.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2656\" alt=\"sony music\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sony-music.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sony-music.jpg 180w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/sony-music-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Photo: Facebook Page of Sony Music Entertainment<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK&#8212;-A federal lawsuit filed in New York charges that Sony Music Entertainment cheated &#8220;American Idol&#8221; contestants including Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood out of at least $10 million in royalties.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed Thursday by 19 Recordings, a music company founded by &#8220;Idol&#8221; creator Simon Fuller.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit says 19 discovered the royalty issue from two separate audits of Sony&#8217;s records.<\/p>\n<p>Other artists named in the suit include Clay Aiken, Chris Daughtry and Jordin Sparks.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Richard Busch, of the Nashville firm King &amp; Ballow, says the legal action was necessary to protect the rights of 19&#8217;s artists.<\/p>\n<p>A Sony spokeswoman said she had no comment on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Photo: Facebook Page of Sony Music Entertainment NEW YORK&#8212;-A federal lawsuit filed in New York charges that Sony Music &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}