Claudia Levy -- the widow of Bob Dylan collaborator Jacques Levy -- misplaced her bid to revive her lawsuit that sought $7.25 million from Dylan's song-catalogue sale.
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The widow of Bob Dylan’s collaborator Tuesday misplaced her bid to revive her lawsuit towards the “Cash Blues” singer for a reduce of his song-catalogue sale.
Claudia Levy failed in her bid to overturn a earlier Manhattan ruling that tossed her lawsuit looking for a portion of the cash Dylan made when he off-loaded his catalogue to Common Music Group in 2020.
Levy had argued that her late husband Jacques Levy’s property was entitled to 35 % of the income Dylan made when he bought the seven songs her husband collaborated on him with for the legend’s 1976 album “Want.”
However an appeals court docket Thursday discovered that Jacques Levy’s contract with Dylan was “unambiguous, and doesn't entitle plaintiffs to proceeds from the sale of the copyrights of the compositions cowritten with Dylan.”
Levy – who died in 2004 – co-wrote the vast majority of the 9 songs on the album with the “Blowin’ within the Wind” singer, for which he had acquired 35 % royalties totaling roughly $1 million.
His widow introduced her the $7.25 million lawsuit towards Dylan final 12 months.
“In the present day’s resolution places the nail within the coffin of this opportunistic lawsuit,” Dylan’s lawyer, Orin Snyder, stated in a press release.
“We're happy the court docket has once more rejected this unhappy try to revenue off of Bob’s latest catalog sale.”
Claudia’s lawyer didn't return a request for remark.
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