A judge in New York has sided with Bob Dylan in his legal dispute with the estate of a former collaborator which sought a cut of the $300 million the musician reportedly secured by selling his songs catalogue to Universal Music last year.The court confirmed that Jacques Levy’s deal with Dylan back in the 1970s was a work-for-hire agreement which paid the songwriter royalties but which did not make him a co-owner of any copyrights, or grant him a cut of any profits from the sale of those copyrights.Levy’s estate sued both Dylan and Universal Music Publishing back in January following last year’s headline-grabbing catalogue acquisition deal.It argued that, while Levy did have what was officially a work-for-hire agreement with Dylan when he.
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