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Sounds like Josh Duggar’s getting the opposite of VIP treatment in prison!

A US judge last week cut back a lawsuit filed by members of the rock band Orleans against Warner Music over the way the major has been processing and paying streaming royalties. Some of the claims made by the band in the lawsuit were dismissed, although some remain.At the core of the litigation filed by Orleans members John Hall and Lance Hoppen is a common gripe in the artist community: record companies allowing their foreign subsidiaries to make deductions on digital income and then calculating the artist royalty based on what is received by the label in the artist’s home country after those deductions.

Two members of American rock band Orleans have sued Warner Music over a common gripe in the artist community: record companies allowing their foreign subsidiaries to make deductions on digital income and then calculating the artist royalty based on what is received by the label in the artist’s home country after those deductions.In a lawsuit filed with the courts in Nashville, John Hall and Lance Hoppen criticise the major both for making those international deductions in the first place and for failing to clearly communicate that was happening on their royalty statements.As a result of the bad communication, they add, they’d previously assumed their artist royalty on streams was being calculated based on ‘at-source income’, ie what the major was paid by the streaming service, not what was received by the home label after the foreign subsidiaries had taken their cut.The legal filing, which seeks class action status, says: “Fees to foreign affiliates are a relic of the days when the collection of revenues from foreign record sales entailed significant labour, as opposed to the relatively frictionless methodology by which digital service providers can compensate rightsholders for the use of their services across multiple territories”.“In such instances”, it adds, “the costs of foreign collection are negligible, and the grossly deficient payment of foreign streaming royalties by defendants simply reflects their ability to manipulate their foreign affiliate practices with no commercial justification beyond self-enrichment”.Regarding Warner’s alleged failure to communicate the international deductions, the lawsuit adds: “Defendants purposefully and knowingly withhold and fail to inform plaintiffs and the class members of the

A THIRD pro dancer on Strictly has refused to have the Covid jab. The move has created even further resentment among stars and crew on the BBC One entertainment show.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s two benefit performances in aid of anti-nuclear energy organisation MUSE are to be released as a new live film.Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) was founded in 1979 by musicians Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and John Hall, and campaigner Harvey Wasserman.In September that year, MUSE organized a series of five ‘No Nukes’ concerts at Madison Square Garden, followed by a rally of almost 200,000 people.As well as Springsteen, the shows included performances from Crosby, Stills, and Nash, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Chaka Khan, Tom Petty and more.Now, two of Springsteen and the E Street Band’s performances, long touted as among their finest early shows, will be released as ‘The Legendary

HALLE Berry looked smitten with her boyfriend Van Hunt as they hit the red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday. The actress, 54, debuted a choppy bob as she posed in a stunning purple gown with her musician partner, 51, at the 93rd Academy Awards.

More than two years after CBS Studios was sued over the current MacGyver series, the company has hit back, claiming that the case “suffers from fatal, incurable deficiencies.”