Note to musicians and songwriters, if you don’t pay your debts, you might lose copyrights to the songs you own.<\/p>\n
Funk legend George Clinton <\/strong>learned this after a judge granted copyrights to four songs from his extensive catalog to a law firm he owes over $1 million.<\/p>\n The law firm Hendricks & Lewis was awarded a $1.5 million judgment against Clinton<\/strong> back in 2010, but so far has only collected $340,000 of that money. So a federal judge gave the copyrights of the following songs to H&L:<\/p>\n – \u201cHardcore Jollies\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n – \u201cThe Electric Spanking of War Babies\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n – \u201cUncle Jam Wants You\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n – \u201cOne Nation Under A Groove\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n According to the ruling, H&L can sell or use the music however it wants — with all money going toward paying back the original judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Note to musicians and songwriters, if you don’t pay your debts, you might lose copyrights to the songs you own. Funk legend George Clinton learned this after a judge granted copyrights to four songs from his extensive catalog to a law firm he owes over $1 million. The law firm Hendricks & Lewis was awarded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}