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*Erica Campbell of Mary Mary has been hit with a lawsuit for reportedly owing her record distributor $70k.
Last year, Campbell sued Entertainment One for owing her money for several songs she penned. In the suit, she says her husband’s — Warryn Campbell — record company, My Block Records, had a deal with the record distributor for two of her albums, “My Help” and “My Help 2.0”.
As noted by thejasminebrand.com, Campbell claims that despite writing several songs on the albums, she was not paid. She points out that E-One collected her music royalties and she believes the sales were in excess of $2 million. E-One claims they didn’t make any profit any money that was made covered her album expenses.
The lawsuit also states that My Block entered into a separate deal with E-One to produce an album for Musiq Soulchild. It’s alleged that they were not properly compensated so My Block and Campbell sued seeking in excess of $500,000.
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Entertainment One has denied Campbell and My Block’s allegations and hit them with a countersuit, accusing them of fraud.
via thejasminebrand:
E-One says that they signed the contract back in 2013. At the time, they say 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 to 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 Bock had failed to secure the licenses.
E-One says that because of the deal, Campbell was legally obligated turn over a portion of songwriting monies she was paid directly to Sony as her music publishing designee.
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.
E-One is suing Erica Campbell and My Block for fraud and seeking in excess of $70k in damages.
