{"id":349882,"date":"2025-12-16T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349882\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:20:09","slug":"dionne-warwick-is-getting-sued-by-her-own-royalty-collectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349882\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionne Warwick Is Getting Sued by Her Own Royalty Collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dionne Warwick<\/a> is being sued by a rights firm that claims she has backed out of a deal that entitles them to \u201chundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars\u201d for work recovering her royalties, court records show. The company, Artists Rights Enforcement Corporation, cites its negotiation of terms and payment for the \u201cWalk on By\u201d sample in Doja Cat<\/a>\u2019s \u201cPaint the Town Red<\/a>\u201d as a key payday for which it is owed an ongoing cut of royalties. Warwick\u2019s team did not immediately respond to Pitchfork\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, filed in New York on Monday (December 15), Artists Rights claims that, since its 2002 deal with Warwick, the company has waived upfront fees in exchange for half of any royalties and settlements it negotiates and collects on her behalf, in perpetuity. That work includes managing the royalty agreement that resulted from Warwick\u2019s 2002 lawsuit against Atlantic\u2014over her ownership of her Scepter Masters<\/a> and classic single \u201cThen Came You\u201d\u2014as well as a deal involving royalties owed to Warwick by Sony, which were being funneled to the state of California to pay off Warwick\u2019s tax bill. Artist Rights claims it has already agreed to reduce or waive its fees for various work done for Warwick over the years, and that the sum of its efforts is more than $2.5 million in revenue\u2014including that recent boon from \u201cPaint the Town Red.\u201d<\/p>\n

This September, however, Warwick allegedly sought to end the deal and to directly receive royalties from Sony, Rhino, and the British copyright collective PPL. Artists Rights argues that this violates their contract. The company says it is entitled to ongoing income for deals it negotiated\u2014a structure designed to offset the risk it took on by waiving upfront fees. This type of agreement is not unheard of, according to Billboard<\/a>, mirroring the no-win-no-fee model employed by some legal firms. Artists Rights is seeking the reinstatement of its cut from Warwick\u2019s royalty deals as well as compensation and interest for missed payments since her attempted termination of the contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dionne Warwick is being sued by a rights firm that claims she has backed out of a deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,14088],"class_list":{"0":"post-349882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-legal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}