Bob Dylan begins to be annoyed by the repeated efforts of his co-author's heirs to extract money from him.
Since the legendary singer sold his catalog to Universal in 2020, for an estimated sum of $ 300 million, the family of Jacques Levy, who notably co-wrote the album
Desire
with the artist, is claiming part of this sum.
A first complaint, unsuccessful last August, resurfaced at the beginning of 2022 when the widow of the co-author came back to the charge and appealed the decision.
But the lawyers of the interpreter of
Blowin 'in the Wind
do not intend to let go.
“This lawsuit is an opportunistic attempt by the plaintiffs to rewrite a 45-year-old employment contract to obtain a one-off payment that the contract does not allow.
The court should force the plaintiffs to abide by the clear terms of the contract that Levy signed 45 years ago and uphold the trial court's decision to dismiss the whole lawsuit with prejudice, ”they wrote in a relayed statement. by Billboard.
Abusive
Still according to Bob Dylan's lawyers, the court decision cannot be revoked.
It would also be abusive to pay Jacques Levy for something other than what he should receive since the signing of the contract which guaranteed him part of the royalties, signed in 1975.
"It would be commercially unreasonable, grossly unfair and downright absurd to pay the plaintiffs their continuous stream of royalty payments in addition to a share of the proceeds of the sale, when the only rights transferred in the sale were those of Dylan and not those of the plaintiffs ”, we can read in the response of the lawyers of the spearhead of the
protest song
.
Always very discreet (in particular with the legal cases which concern him), Bob Dylan did not speak personally on this complaint.
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