At a court hearing Monday, a federal judge said he believes Cher is entitled to receive ongoing composition royalties from songs including “I Got U Babe” and “The Beat Goes On”In his tentative ruling delivered from the bench, U.S.
Judge Kronstadt also said he wasn’t persuaded by Mary’s arguments that Cher’s lawsuit should be rejected because she never named Sonny’s other heirs — his four kids, including Cher’s son Chaz Bono — as defendants even though the case affects their royalty payments as well. “I think interests are sufficiently aligned with those of Sonny’s children, so she can adequately represent them, and there’s evidence of awareness of this litigation but no objection or effort to intervene,” the judge said.
“They have zero interest in appointing anybody,” Mary’s lawyer Daniel Schacht told the court Monday. He said Mary was worried Iconic would “force” the heirs back into litigation over the appointment of an administrator. The star’s attorney argued that by the time Sonny and Cher signed their divorce settlement in August of 1978, they were “sophisticated people” represented by “sophisticated lawyers.” They also knew two things by that time: “That these songs had actually been released, and ‘I Got U Babe,’ and ‘Bang Bang,’ were big hits. They knew this. They also knew that the 1976 Copyright Act was in effect and that on January 1, 1978, it had a termination right.
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