Barry Ostrager: Last News

Bob Dylan from the widow of a former collaborator was rejected by a court yesterday (April 5).Universal purchased the rights to Dylan’s songs back in December 2020 for a reported $300million (£221million) which in turn triggered a lawsuit from the widow of Dylan’s former collaborator Dan Levy.

Bob Dylan would like it to be known that judge Barry Ostrager was dead right when he dismissed a lawsuit filed by the estate of one of his former collaborators. And given just how dead right Ostrager undoubtedly was, why allow that estate to have a second go at grabbing a cut of Dylan’s big pay day from his 2020 Universal catalogue deal?Jacques Levy collaborated with Dylan back in the 1970s, ultimately co-writing seven of the nine songs that appear on the 1976 album ‘Desire’.

sold his song catalogue.Jacques, who died in 2004, co-wrote seven of the nine songs on Dylan’s 1976 album “Desire,” and his widow claimed in her $7.25 million lawsuit that her husband’s estate was owed 35 percent “of the purchase price” Dylan got from buyer Universal Music Group for the seven songs.But lawyers for the “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer argued that under the 1975 contract Dylan and Jacques signed, the estate was only entitled to 35 percent in royalties — not an additional 35 percent cut of the sale of the songs to Universal in 2020.Judge Barry Ostrager sided with Dylan’s camp and tossed out Levy’s suit in a ruling Friday.“The 1975 agreement vested in Dylan complete ownership and control of the copyrights to the compositions and