More litigal things for you. Not that there's any such word, but I'm thinking there should be. Anyway, Dr Dre has filed a lawsuit through the US bankruptcy courts against his former label Death Row over the rights to his seminal 1992 album 'The Chronic'.
There's been a long running dispute over the rights to this album, which is seen by many as the defining moment of Dre's career, and which was also responsible for introducing Snoop Dogg to the world. Dre handed over his rights to the album in 1996 as part of a deal with Death Row which should have seen him continue to receive royalties from the long player. However, Dre declared that deal redundant in 2000 claiming Death Row had failed to fulfill its royalty commitments.
Dre's concerns regarding ownership of the album have grown since Death Row filed for bankruptcy, because there is a high chance the label's administrators will look to sell the rights to the album in a bid to help repay creditors. Dre will try to claim Death Row lost its rights over the long player, because it was in breach of the 1996 agreement, in a bid to stop the recording falling into third party ownership.
Dre's lawsuit, filed last week, requests that the copyright be returned to his ownership, and that he be allowed a claim over the liquidated company for owed royalties stemming from the 1996 agreement.