Middletown soul singer sues Sony; says company owes her royalties for song sampled on Christina Aguilera's 'Back to ...
Published: Monday, July 09, 2012; Last Updated: Monday, July 9, 2012 4:13 PM EDT
By Christine Stuart, ctnewsjunkie.com
A legendary Connecticut soul singer is suing Sony Music Entertainment in U.S. District Court for failing to pay her royalties when it allowed Christina Aguilera to sample one of her songs.
Betty Harris-Clemons, a Middletown resident who is now in her 70s, claims in a lawsuit filed Friday that the record company sampled her song Nearer to You on Christina Aguileras Back to Basics CD.
Aguilera sampled Harris-Clemons song Nearer to You at the beginning of her song Understand.
The lawsuit filed by Harris-Clemons attorney Ken Krayeske claims the defendant never licensed Nearer to You and was aware of the infringement before the CD was released.
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