{"id":2849,"date":"2016-11-15T04:57:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2016-11-15T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:59:08","slug":"duran-duran-in-court-battle-over-song-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/15\/duran-duran-in-court-battle-over-song-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran In Court Battle Over Song Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Duran Duran are battling with Gloucester Place Music over the US rights to some of their songs. \u00a0Gloucester Place Music is owned by the American firm Sony\/ATV.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Gloucester Place, which is part of EMI Music Publishing, are asking a London High Court judge to declare that the group members breached publishing agreements by serving notices to terminate the grant to the company of US copyrights.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0US law, songwriters have a right\u00a0to call for a reversion of copyright after 35 years while Gloucester Place says the agreements with the group members are governed by English law.<\/p>\n<p>The band released a string of hits, including Girls On Film, Rio and Hungry Like The Wolf after releasing their initial album in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Members of Duran Duran are battling with Gloucester Place Music over the US rights to some of their songs. \u00a0Gloucester Place Music is owned by the American firm Sony\/ATV. Lawyers for Gloucester Place, which is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/15\/duran-duran-in-court-battle-over-song-rights\/\" title=\"Duran Duran In Court Battle Over Song Rights\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[1778,1777,1780,1779,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-2849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-uk","9":"tag-copyright","10":"tag-duran-duran","11":"tag-gloucester-place","12":"tag-song-rights","13":"tag-sonyatv","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}