George Clinton Loses Song Copyrights: Funk Icon Ordered to Hand Over Music to Pay Off Debt

hell at least he will get them back......use your music to pay bills,,,**** i wish it was that easy

I was told by different people that Clinton didn't own his old music....I guess they didn't know what they were talking about.

Darn Lawyers will take your last ...BLOOD!!

So you can TAKE a BLACK MANS creations, inventions, ideas, talents. RACISM and STEALING is all it is. Lawyers STEAL & CHEAT more than any other field of study.

All of you need to Read The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews Vol. II and Jews Selling Blacks.

George is being raped!!!!!!!

For Immediate Release.

January 8, 2013 ----. In a brief filed before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday, attorneys for Rock and Roll legend George Clinton have made the latest move in the on- going legal battle with the law firm Hendricks and Lewis. Clinton is asking the court to review the decision of the lower courts which granted H&L the rights to four of Clinton’s most popular recordings and dismissed Clinton’s claim of malpractice.

The latest move is Clinton’s attempt to seek justice and counteract a series of rulings that Seattle based Hendricks and Lewis has been able to “obtain” through local courts. These rulings include one which prohibited Clinton from pursuing a malpractice claim Clinton brought against the firm and attorney O. Yale Lewis in particular. That claim stemmed from Lewis’ failure to meet a crucial deadline which greatly impaired Clinton’s case against music giant UMG.

Lewis was Clinton’s attorney on a number of cases from 2005 – 2008. During which period Clinton paid Lewis nearly $2 million but Lewis contends that Clinton still owes him $1.6 million. Lewis has a history of similar conflict with celebrity clients, having been sued by Courtney Love Cobain and The Jimi Hendrix estate over improprieties concerning billing and/or representation.
Clinton was actually prevailing over Lewis in California courts in this dispute when Lewis filled a similar case in his home state of Washington. While the case was still under consideration in Los Angeles the proceedings in Seattle somehow went faster and a judgment was issued favoring Lewis. Clinton’s attorneys then sought to have the case reheard but were denied. Clinton is appealing the decision.

One thing is certain: Clinton has created some of the most valuable musical compositions and recordings in the history of music, judging by all of the ex-managers, agents, publishers, and lawyers who are profiting - or hope to profit- from the revenue Clinton’s music has generated.
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payback fees? And he has repaid 340 grand? strange wording in the story, sounds like george swindled money from his lawyers and they had to sue him to get it back otherwise it would simply be paying 'owed' fees.

KARMA always will win in the end

Couldn't have happened to a LESS outstanding fellow!!! Congratulations to the lawyers who finally nailed him. Now, IRS -- it's YOUR turn to bring him to task for lying on the bankruptcy papers years ago when he pretended he didn't have any assets. He has benefited (stolen) from musicians, singers, songwriters for years when he released Cds, DVD, etc. and NOT A ONE OF THEM were ever paid!!!

awwwwwww, George FINALLY got brought to task for ONE of his thefts (in this case, theft of services)? gosh, oh gee and to think of all the years he's benefited from the work of others (musicians/songwriters, vocalists) and NEVER paid them one damn cent they were due from those sales. Not from DVD sales, not from CD sales, etc. He dissolved Thang Inc. so he didn't have to pay the original P-Funk vocalists, songwriters, musicians (or their estates). Good. small justice but we'll take what we can get. When is the IRS going after him for his lies in his bankruptcy case years ago?????