Richard Finch – a founder member of KC & The Sunshine Band who co-wrote some of the group’s biggest hits – has sued EMI Longitude Music, part of Sony Music Publishing, in a bid to force the termination right under US Copyright law in relation to a stack of songs including ‘That’s The Way I Like It’.That termination right allows music-makers who assign their copyrights to a business partner to terminate that assignment and reclaim their rights – albeit only in the US – after a set period of time.
Under current US copyright law the termination right kicks in after 35 years.Within the record industry there remains some dispute as to whether the termination right applies to record contracts, with many labels arguing that they are the default.
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