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We reported back in January that Erica Campbell and My Block, which is owned by Erica’s husband Warryn Campbell was suing Entertaiment One (E-One) over unpaid royalties, well now E-One has filed a counter suit, accusing the two of fraud.
Here is the back story:
Campbell’s husband’s record company, My Block Records, entered into a deal with Entertainment One US LP to distribute two Erica Campbell albums: “My Help” and “My Help 2.0.”
Campbell says she wrote several songs on the two albums, but E-One collected the royalties from the albums and never gave Campbell her due.
My Block Records also say they never saw a dime from E-One for what they estimate to be a little more than $2 million in sales. They claim E-One told them the albums made zero profit and any money they did make went to E-One’s expenses.
And speaking of expenses, My Block Records claims E-One spent over $500,000.00 in album production, advances, manufacturing and other costs on the Campbell albums … which My Block Records believe to be untrue and “and designed to deprive Block of substantial revenue.”
My Block and Campbell are seeking damages in excess of $500,000.
Now, according to the team over at the JasmineBrand, E-One has filed a countersuit accusing Campbell and My Block of fraud, denying the allegations, and are seeking in excess of $70k in damages.
E-One says that they signed the contract back in 2013. At the time, they stated that the singer promised them that she was not under any restriction or prohibition, contractual or otherwise.
However, they say that after they released the albums, Sony Music informed them that Sony had not granted My Block any licenses over Campbell. They say that claims for unpaid songwriting royalties against E-One are false pointing out that at the time, Campbell was engaged in an exclusive publishing agreement with Sony and My Block had failed to secure the licenses.
The company insists that because Campbell did not inform them of the arrangement with Sony, they have had to pay $70,000 to Sony in mechanical royalties since 2015 in order to avoid any legal action by Sony.
We’re praying the parties can work this thing out…
