1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,359 Speaker 1: Some quick music news I saw pop up. This is 2 00:00:03,399 --> 00:00:07,719 from digital Musicnews dot com. And I did not know 3 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:10,839 that this was going on. But Mary Bono files appeal 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:15,480 following momentous Share copyright victory. I had no idea that 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:20,519 this was happening, that Mary Bono, Sonny Bono's widow, was 6 00:00:20,559 --> 00:00:24,039 actually fighting with Cher, who was also married to Sonny Bono. 7 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:28,160 Of course, over there's always Here's the thing about the 8 00:00:28,199 --> 00:00:30,160 music industry, there's one thing you can always count on. 9 00:00:30,239 --> 00:00:33,280 Someone is always doing somebody for something, it says here. 10 00:00:33,399 --> 00:00:38,240 Sonny Bono's widow, Mary files an appeal following a federal 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,479 judge's ruling last year that Share is still entitled to 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,799 fifty percent of the proceeds from her nineteen sixties hits 13 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,799 with Sonny. Of course, everyone knows Sonny and Chair. Even 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,039 you youngins have probably heard of Sonny and Share at 15 00:00:51,079 --> 00:00:56,320 least before. Before Share was the hugely successful solo artist 16 00:00:56,359 --> 00:00:59,159 that she became, she was, of course, one half of 17 00:00:59,159 --> 00:01:01,799 the duo Sonny and Share, it says here. Last year, 18 00:01:01,799 --> 00:01:03,880 a federal judge ruled the Chare is still entitled to 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,480 half of the publishing proceeds from her early hits with 20 00:01:07,599 --> 00:01:11,640 her ex Sonny Bono, including I Got You Babe. Everyone 21 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,400 knows that song, right, I Got You Babe? Forgive me 22 00:01:14,439 --> 00:01:17,040 for singing? Now. A year and a half later, Sonny's widow, 23 00:01:17,079 --> 00:01:21,760 Mary Bono, has filed an appeal. Mary has been trying 24 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:26,079 to stop paying royalties to Share under so called termination rights, 25 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,359 under which artists and their heirs can gain back control 26 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,719 of intellectual property years after signing it away. But last year, 27 00:01:35,799 --> 00:01:39,000 a federal judge ruled that termination rights do not apply 28 00:01:39,519 --> 00:01:42,879 to Sonny and SHARE's nineteen seventy eight a divorce settlement, 29 00:01:43,239 --> 00:01:46,400 which entitled Share to a fifty percent cut of publishing 30 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:48,959 revenue from hits like I Got You Babe, The Beat 31 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Goes On and Baby Don't Go in perpetuity. In May 32 00:01:55,599 --> 00:02:00,640 twenty twenty four, California Federal US District Judge John A. 33 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:05,640 Cronstat ruled in Cher's favor, but the decision wasn't made 34 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,599 official until a final judgment that was entered just last month. 35 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:16,560 That judgment was appealed by Mary Bono's attorney, Daniel shacked Shat, 36 00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:21,520 to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, December 37 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:27,759 twenty second. Mary Bono has argued she should be able 38 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,360 to invoke her termination rights to cancel Sunny's assignment of 39 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:33,719 royalties to Share in the divorce settlement, but Judge Cronstatt 40 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,199 ruled that the divorce agreement was a contract for financial compensation, 41 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:42,240 not a grant of intellectual property that would be subject 42 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,400 to termination, writing that quote a right to receive royalties 43 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:53,800 is distinct from a grant of copyright unquote, so it 44 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:58,439 says a shat told Billboard quote Judge Cronstat's got the 45 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,319 law wrong on copyright term nations. His ruling, if left standing, 46 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,599 will hurt songwriters and creators by allowing not just former spouses, 47 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,439 but also publishers and labels to circumvent the Copyright Act 48 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,560 and keep shares of royalties even after termination unquote, he 49 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:16,840 said at the time of the judges ruling last year. 50 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,439 By the way, and Share was also in the news 51 00:03:19,479 --> 00:03:22,280 recently for this Share was the musical guest on Saturday 52 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,439 Night Live last weekend, while Ariana Grande hosted the episode. 53 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,479 But the seventy which is unusual, by the way, you 54 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,479 would think because it's not I mean, it's not super common, 55 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,800 but occasionally you'll have a musical guest and a host 56 00:03:35,879 --> 00:03:37,479 be the same person, you know, like you might have 57 00:03:37,599 --> 00:03:40,199 Riyana Grande, because obviously she's a musician. You might have 58 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,080 her host and be the musical guest, you know, pulling 59 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,719 double duty. You see that once in a while, but 60 00:03:43,759 --> 00:03:47,919 they didn't do that this time. Chare was the musical guest. 61 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:51,159 The seventy nine year old has been accused of lip 62 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:55,120 syncing during her performance of her twenty twenty three Christmas 63 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,680 track DJ Play a Christmas song, which left some fans disappointed. 64 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,759 Eddie and I thought the same thing as we were 65 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,520 watching it. Is she lip syncing it? Did? It? Did 66 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:11,120 appear that way? She isn't even singing. One person complained 67 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:13,280 on x this is some of the worst lip syncing 68 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:18,160 I've ever seen, regardless. I mean, even if she was 69 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:22,240 singing live, there was a lot of processing on her voice. 70 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:27,720 And I know her her huge monster hit song was 71 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,199 it Believe Do you Believe in Life After Love? You know? 72 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,360 That was like that's like got the auto tune dialed 73 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:36,399 all the way up on that song, and that kind 74 00:04:36,399 --> 00:04:41,600 of became like her sound there in that moment. I 75 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,000 mean auto tune obviously during that period was used a lot. 76 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,120 It still is, I mean, but used like obviously where 77 00:04:48,399 --> 00:04:50,839 you're actually supposed to hear the auto tune. That kind 78 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:52,920 of became the style and the vibe for a little while. 79 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:58,160 And you know, I think it sounds horrible and I 80 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:02,360 hate that song for that reason anyway. But yeah, so 81 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,279 some legal news, and of course the lip syncing. I mean, 82 00:05:05,319 --> 00:05:07,759 you know, the lip syncing thing, Well, that'll blow over. 83 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,240 Nobody really cares that much. I'll tell you what. For 84 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,000 seventy nine years old, she still moves really well, so 85 00:05:13,199 --> 00:05:15,079 I'll give her that. But I don't think she was 86 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,800 actually singing. But again, that's not a big deal. But 87 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,360 the legal wrangling, I didn't even know that that was 88 00:05:20,399 --> 00:05:24,519 going on, that there was ongoing litigation between Mary Bono, 89 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,560 who was who Sonny was married to at the time 90 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,720 of his death, and Share. I did not know about that, 91 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:31,120 so that's interesting to me.