Slacker CEO Fails to Personally Escape Sony Music Copyright Suit

The CEO of music streamer Slacker Inc. and its parent, LiveOne Inc., failed to convince a New York federal judge to excuse him from Sony Music Entertainment’s copyright suit against the companies.

Sony contends that the companies, at Robert Ellin’s direction, withheld millions owed to the music library owner under a licensing agreement and then kept using the music after Sony terminated the deal. That was “certainly” enough to establish jurisdiction and viable claims against Ellin personally, and not solely in his capacity as an officer for the Los Angeles-based companies, the US District Court for the Southern District of ...