the Column by Fabia Oliveira He discovered that Leonardo, after being branded a liar and a Machiavellian, took on Sony Music’s defense in court. The singer filed a lawsuit against the company on charges of improper exploitation of his songs on live streaming platforms.
In his response, Leonardo said that the record company presented a long-winded defense with disjointed arguments in which it itself was lost. According to him, Sony misrepresented the terms of the contract binding on it, misrepresented legal concepts and presented facts that were not related to the subject of the legal action.
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Without delay, the artist’s response says that it is inconceivable that a multinational company would present to the court a disorganized and incoherent defense that would be nothing more than a pile of papers with no relevance or coherence.
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Insisting on Sony’s bad faith, Leonardo asked the court to discard all documents collected by the company that were considered extraneous to the process or had no relation to the case. The singer also asked the judge to ignore the record company’s request for him to testify in court.
The artist claimed that the process dealt with a purely legal issue, which could be resolved based on the documents submitted, making his testimony unnecessary.
Remember the case and what Sony said
Leonardo accused Sony of exploiting his material in media that did not exist when he signed the contract in 1998. The country singer stated that he did not receive the amounts that the company earns from the catalog available on the Internet and requested an injunction to prevent the record company from exploiting his catalog, in addition to transferring all information, metadata and the database of his tracks to an aggregator appointed by him.
In its defense, the record company accused the citizen of filing a lawsuit full of lies that aimed, in a Machiavellian way, to usurp his rights and deceive the judiciary.
Conclusively and continuing its harsh defense, Sony stated that Leonardo was indeed a successful and wealthy man and possessed sufficient knowledge to understand the content of the contract signed with the company.
Leonardo asserted in the lawsuit that Sony Music exploits its music online, in a way that was not officially foreseen and generates unjustified profits. But the company denied the presence of the musician and presented an addendum to the signed contract in which it appears that the sale of its audio recordings via the Internet was discussed and regulated.
Turning to another aspect of the case, Sony claimed that all the violations that Leonardo accused it of dating back at least a decade. Therefore, over time, the singer has already lost his right to compensation, with his supposed rights having expired.
The defendant also said that Leonardo had increased his wealth and income because of the work she had done with his songs, and that he was not satisfied and was seeking to take away the legitimate rights of the record company and the possibility of recovering all the investments he had made in his career.
During a 75-page defense, Sony Music reiterated that it owned the rights to Leonardo’s audio recordings and videos, and accused the artist of lying, acting shamelessly and committing fraud against “the record company that welcomed him so much.”
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