Client 'Case File' DECEMBER 2017

Recently Simons Rodkin Solicitors LLP accepted a new client who for the last 17 years has been battling against Record Companies, Managers and Music Publishers to receive overdue royalties from contracts signed as far back as 2000.

He found himself embroiled in endless communications with Label Managers, A+R men and women, Lawyers and Collection companies all to no end. By the time he reached out to our firm he had lost almost everything except the knowledge that the song was his and it had been generating income from compilation around the world for almost two decades.

Through our music legal services we gathered information through the Performing Rights Society (PRS) and the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) of a large number of albums released in the United Kingdom which had generated combined unit sales reaching into their millions.

With that information on record we informed our client and made the proposal to contact the relevant Music Publishers and the Record Companies involved requesting a full ‘Statement of Accounts’ and that we would inform the necessary parties that our client would be seeking full payment of any unpaid royalties due to him as the Original Composer, Producer and Owner of the Sound recording.

Within seven days of Simons Rodkin notifying the parties, our Music Consultant received a direct phone call from the Managing Director of the Music Publisher involved stating that after reviewing the matter and the supporting documentation provided by our firm their intention was to provide our client with all of our requests. Three weeks after our Free initial telephone consultation we had provided a solution to a matter that could have gone on forever.