F.B.T. PRODUCTIONS, LLC v. AFTERMATH RECORDS

Nos. 09-55817, 09-56069.

621 F.3d 958 (2010)

F.B.T. PRODUCTIONS, LLC; Em2M, LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AFTERMATH RECORDS, dba Aftermath Entertainment; Interscope Records; UMG Recording, Inc.; ARY, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. F.B.T. Productions, LLC; Em2M, LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Aftermath Records, dba Aftermath Entertainment; Interscope Records; UMG Recording, Inc.; ARY, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 3, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome B. Falk Jr. , Daniel B. Asimow , and Sara J. Eisenberg , Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC, San Francisco, CA; and Richard S. Busch , King & Ballow, Nashville, TN, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Glenn D. Pomerantz , Kelly M. Klaus , and Melinda E. Lemoine , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before JEROME FARRIS, CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL and BARRY G. SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:

This dispute concerns the percentage of royalties due to Plaintiffs F.B.T. Productions, LLC, and Em2M, LLC, under their contracts with Defendant Aftermath in connection with the recordings of Marshal B. Mathers, III, professionally known as the rap artist Eminem.1 Specifically, F.B.T. and Aftermath disagree on whether the contracts' "Records Sold" provision or "Masters Licensed" provision sets...

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