Wife of Bob Dylan collaborator loses suit over music catalogue
sold his song catalogue.Jacques, who died in 2004, co-wrote seven of the nine songs on Dylan’s 1976 album “Desire,” and his widow claimed in her $7.25 million lawsuit that her husband’s estate was owed 35 percent “of the purchase price” Dylan got from buyer Universal Music Group for the seven songs.But lawyers for the “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer argued that under the 1975 contract Dylan and Jacques signed, the estate was only entitled to 35 percent in royalties — not an additional 35 percent cut of the sale of the songs to Universal in 2020.Judge Barry Ostrager sided with Dylan’s camp and tossed out Levy’s suit in a ruling Friday.“The 1975 agreement vested in Dylan complete ownership and control of the copyrights to the compositions and