Copyright Mismanagement

Cleveland, TX: (Nov-22-07) Steve Popovich, founder of Cleveland International Records, a small record company started in 1977, brought a lawsuit against Sony Music, alleging that the music giant failed to put his company's logo on reissues of Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" album. Popovich, 65, signed a singer named Marvin Lee Aday and persuaded Epic Records to release the wildly successful album. Records state that Epic was owned at the time by CBS. Sony, which bought out CBS Records, paid $6.7 million to Popovich and his former partners in 1998 to settle a lawsuit over royalties from the album. As part of the deal, Sony was required to place the Cleveland International logo on future Meat Loaf albums but the suit stated that it did not add the logo to "Bat Out of Hell" for over a year. As part of a settlement reached, Sony Music was ordered to pay Popovich $5 million to resolve the dispute. [EL PASO TIMES: COPYRIGHT MISMANAGEMENT]

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Published on Nov-26-07