The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday revived a lawsuit by the estate of a former keyboardist George “Bernie” Worrell Jr. against funk legend George Clinton over hundreds of Parliament-Funkadelic recordings from 1969 to 1981.
Worrell’s estate provided sufficient evidence for copyright-ownership claims stemming from unpaid royalties to proceed, said Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The case has a set of “highly unusual facts” and hinges on a 1976 recording contract that Clinton and his company allegedly had with Worrell, Moore said.
Worrell argued Clinton and his company Thang Inc. didn’t deny the ...
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