Enlarge / Mark Volman (Flo) and Howard Kaylan (Eddie) of The Turtles, pictured here at a 2007 performance. The two members are heading up a class-action copyright lawsuit against Sirius XM. (credit: Stephen J. Boitano/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Members of the 1960s rock band The Turtles will get their day in court against Sirius XM on Tuesday. They seek to wrest up to $100 million from the satellite-radio giant for infringing their copyrights.
The case will send a strong signal as to the value of state-level copyrights. The US copyright system didn’t grant copyrights on sound recordings until 1972. Some states, however, have offered their own, more generous copyrights, which allow creators to get royalties paid for pre-1972 works.
Now The Turtles will be putting those state copyrights to the test in a class-action case they’re leading in Los Angeles. The case was filed in 2013, and the Turtles said at that time they would seek at least $100 million in damages.
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Source: Ars Technica – The Turtles’ 0M trial against Sirius XM starts tomorrow