Former Mushroomhead vocalist Jeffrey Hatrix actual identify Jeffrey Lewis Hetrick) is suing Mushroomhead drummer and producer Steve “Skinny” Felton over alleged copyright infringement and unpaid royalties.
In keeping with a lawsuit obtained by Blabbermouth, Hatrix claims Felton has not paid him royalties for “a number of years no less than” regardless of having written or having helped written almost 150 of Mushroomhead‘s songs. Cleveland.com additionally notes that Filthy Palms Firm, an organization registered by former Mushroomhead keyboardist Tom Schmitz to deal with the band’s enterprise, is called within the lawsuit.
“Many of the performing arts copyright registrations have been registered as Stephen Felton being the copyright claimant,” reads a portion of the lawsuit. “And, though on many songs [Hatrix] was given correct credit score for his participation in creating stated works, there appears to be no file of mechanical royalty funds stemming from these performing arts registrations.”
The lawsuit additionally claims that Felton was paying himself twice, including: “Felton‘s actions … grew to become extra nefarious, together with the doctoring of publishing splits giving Skinny (Felton) double pay beneath 2 names ‘Tenafly Viper‘ and simply plain ‘Steve Felton‘, together with 30% going to him beneath ‘unknown publicist’ and ‘unknown author’. Actually, a lot of the publishing splits appear to have disappeared as plaintiff has not obtained any mechanical royalties to talk of for a number of years no less than.
“Though the cash coming elevated, plaintiff was apparently receiving pennies on the greenback. [Hatrix] was paid an ‘allowance’ $1,200 per week per, per tour. Actually, plaintiff was paid nearly nothing past this and is due his publishing and different, royalties, revenue from touring, gross sales and royalties from movie media, together with loss from different sources of revenue to be decided.”
Hatrix‘s legal professional Ronald Stanley stated to Cleveland.com that Hatrix is searching for no less than $3.5 million in damages, later including that “We do not know all what he’s entitled to but.”
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