A US federal appeals court has upheld a jury and ruled that Sony Music must pay the founder of Cleveland International records $5million for failing to put his company’s logo on reissues of Meat Loaf’s album Bat Out of Hell.
A US federal appeals court has upheld a jury and ruled that Sony Music must pay the founder of Cleveland International records $5million for failing to put his company’s logo on reissues of Meat Loaf’s album Bat Out of Hell. Steve Popovich, the founder of the smaller label, signed Meat Loaf and in 1977 persuaded Epic Records, part of CBS Records, to release his album. Sony later bought CBS Records and have already paid $6.7million to Mr. Popovich and his former partners to settle a lawsuit over royalties from Bat Out of Hell. The settlement required Sony to place the Cleveland International logo on future Meat Loaf albums, but Sony did not add the logo to Bat Out of Hell for more than a year. Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
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