Cher has won her yearslong copyright lawsuit against Sonny Bono’s widow over royalty payments from the Sonny & Cher catalog, a federal judge in the Central District of California ruled on Wednesday.
The dispute tied to Cher’s suit goes back many years. When she and Bono settled their divorce in 1978, it was determined that Cher was entitled to a 50 percent stake in the Sonny & Cher publishing catalog. After Bono died in 1998, Cher and Bono’s heirs entered a partnership over the songs. But in 2016, Mary Bono exercised the Copyright Act’s “termination rights,...
The dispute tied to Cher’s suit goes back many years. When she and Bono settled their divorce in 1978, it was determined that Cher was entitled to a 50 percent stake in the Sonny & Cher publishing catalog. After Bono died in 1998, Cher and Bono’s heirs entered a partnership over the songs. But in 2016, Mary Bono exercised the Copyright Act’s “termination rights,...
- 5/29/2024
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
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