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Steve Jobs, Jimmy Iovine are to testify at trial in federal court over royalties to artists on digital downloads. At stake is millions for musical artists downloaded onto iTunes.
Eminem is causing trouble again. But this brouhaha may affect a lot more than a few freestylin' rappers.
TheWrap has learned that a two-year-old lawsuit by the rapper is set to go to trial Tuesday and could impact a vast number of musical artists and the most popular form of music consumption -- the digital download over iTunes.
F.B.T. Productions, the rapper's publishing company, is going to court on Tuesday against Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company.
A jury was seated Friday, with a star-studded witness list, starting with Jimmy Iovine, a founder of UMG and its distribution label, Interscope Records, and its subsidiary, Aftermath Entertainment, the lead defendant.
Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computers, Inc., is also scheduled to testify, by video. Eminem himself is not expected to appear.
Eminem has sued Universal over how much he is entitled to when UMG sells his music to third-party distributors -- including Apple’s iTunes and phone companies like Sprint and Nextel, which offer the music for ringtones.
At stake is potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for recording artists whose songs have gained unprecedented levels of distribution through digital downloads.
While digital royalties have become a growing source of conflict between artists and record companies in recent years as downloads have gained in popularity, the trial in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California represents the first legal test of the competing issues.
UMG represents a virtual who’s who of recording artists, including Akon, U2, Jay-Z and Kanye West. Aftermath was created by the rapper Dr. Dre, who brought Eminem into the fold more than 10 years ago.
“This is very significant case,” said Jay Cooper, an entertainment lawyer with vast experience in the music industry. “A lot of people are going to be watching very closely because there’s a lot of money involved.”
Click for the court document.
The key question for the court, Cooper said, is whether the jury will determine that the use of an artist’s music in a download deal is a licensing agreement or a distribution deal.
The difference in monetary gain for artists is potentially huge. Under traditional licensing agreements, which cover records and CDs, the artist splits royalties 50-50,with the record company. Extended to include digital downloads, that could mean as much as 35 cents for the artist for every iTunes purchase. Under a distribution arrangement, the artist might see less than 20 cents.
Cooper declined to speculate how much money may ultimately be up for grabs because contract language varies, artist to artist. Further, performers and record companies might have entirely different interpretation of the same words, which appears to be the case involving Eminem’s company.
The lead attorney for F.B.T., Richard S. Busch, declined to comment. An aide at UMG’s law firm, Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, referred questions to UMG spokesman Peter LoFrumento, who did not respond to a telephone message seeking comment.
The sums in this specific case are not huge.



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