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Custody battle over Justin Bieber’s Baby
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 3 February 2011
Yeah, so that headline is a little misleading, but hey, it got you reading this article about a slightly tedious royalties dispute, didn’t it? The publishing rights to Justin Bieber’s year old hit ‘Baby’ are part of a divorce dispute between American pop couple Christina Milian and The-Dream.
The singer and singer-producer, who were both among the songwriters credited for ‘Baby’, were briefly married in 2009 and have a daughter together. They initially reached an amicable and private divorce settlement late last year but, according to TMZ, Milian now wants to renegotiate that settlement to secure herself more financial support.
And, according to the gossip site, among her requests is a bigger share of the royalties from the Bieber hit. She is reportedly currently getting 10% of The-Dream’s cut of the publishing income on the track – which was a collaboration between the teeny pop boy and rap man Ludacris – but she reckons she is due more than that.
Whether resentment over the size of her cut of the ‘Baby’ royalties would ever result in Milian taking out her frustrations on Bieber himself we don’t know, though if she did it might look like this.
