Sony Music Leisure has been hit with a lawsuit from the creator of the Nickelodeon sequence Large Time Rush, who says the label “concocted a nasty religion entity shell recreation” to chop him out of touring earnings when the TV present’s eponymous boy band reunited 4 years in the past.
Scott Fellows, who created the hit present a few fictional boy band that ran on Nickelodeon from 2009 to 2013, brings a sequence of breach of contract claims towards Sony within the federal court docket lawsuit filed Thursday (July 3).
Through the present’s heyday, the real-life members of Big Time Rush launched music and toured underneath a cope with Sony Music. In keeping with Fellows’ lawsuit, he acquired contractual funds amounting to three.75% of the band’s touring income till its members went their separate methods in 2014.
As acknowledged within the grievance, when Large Time Rush reunited in 2021, the group struck a deal to go impartial from Nickelodeon and Sony Music. By way of the deal not beforehand shared publicly, the lawsuit reveals that the band licensed its emblems and previous music from Sony and Nickelodeon in trade for 10% of future revenues.
However as Fellows’ attorneys allege within the lawsuit, Sony “restructured its inter-company preparations to cheat and lower plaintiffs out of their share of the tour revenues” by contracting straight with the members of Large Time Rush slightly than going by an entirely owned subsidiary that the label beforehand used, Large Time Rush Touring LLC. As a result of Fellows’ preliminary settlement was with the LLC, he says his rights to three.75% of touring income had been eradicated by the restructuring.
“It’s obvious that Sony Music intentionally acted to chop Fellows off from his contractual rights,” the lawsuit claims.
Fellows is now looking for to recoup his lower of Large Time Rush’s 2022 reunion tour, in addition to the band’s In Real Life World Tour that’s scheduled to kick off on Wednesday (July 9). The lawsuit doesn’t specify a greenback quantity however says that Sony has “generated substantial revenues” from the band’s dwell reveals.
Sony Music didn’t return a request for touch upon Monday (July 7). A rep for Large Time Rush, which isn’t named within the lawsuit nor accused of any wrongdoing, additionally didn’t return a request for remark.