ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

Attorney Patrick Cousins is baaaaaack.

He filed a Petition for Allowance of Claim Previously Disallowed.

He still wants his $599k in attorney fees.

Comerica is alleging he filed his Petition late and he did not

submit an itemization of services rendered, just a total of $599k.

Comerica is further arguing that it is barred by the statute of limitations,

which is 6 years,

This needs to go away.

Omarr and Tyka are adding another attorney to their list of attorneys.

Dexter R. Hamilton.

Here is his bio.

https://www.cozen.com/peo...ton-dexter

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

I was on the defending side of a case with that firm repping the plaintiffs. Let's just say they didn't get what they wanted. Another hired gun.

laurarichardson said:

rogifan said:

laurarichardson said:

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

laurarichardson said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

Attorney Patrick Cousins is baaaaaack.

He filed a Petition for Allowance of Claim Previously Disallowed.

He still wants his $599k in attorney fees.

Comerica is alleging he filed his Petition late and he did not

submit an itemization of services rendered, just a total of $599k.

Comerica is further arguing that it is barred by the statute of limitations,

which is 6 years,

This needs to go away.

--Maybe it will go away if the estate just sues his ass for stealing that church or notify the authorities.

And we all know how Americans love to sue!

rogifan said:

Looks like UMG is starting to go after FB pages. I think this is dumb. Go after bootlegs fine or if someone is posting entire albums or concerts to FB. But most of the stuff I see posted there is not that at all. It's maybe a 2 minute clip of a Dreamer guitar solo from Welcome 2 Europe. What harm is there in leaving that stuff on YouTube or Facebook? I doubt the Estate is going to offer every concert he ever professionally filmed for purchase. Quit completely scrubbing him from the internet. https://theiconicprince.w...unishment/

Why dont they go after the people who are actually making money from P's image and likeness?

I constantly see Prince jewelry, paintings, clothing, etc posted on Facebook, Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy.

Why bother with the fans who post just a few minutes of a live concert?

SMFH

rogifan said:

rogifan said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

laurarichardson said:

TonyVanDam said:

margi said:

TonyVanDam said:

This is TonyVanDam and I just receiced the memo:

http://www.fox16.com/ente.../638886156

The legendary musician Prince was no pauper.

An inventory of his estate filed this week with a Minnesota court is giving a glimpse into the star's personal fortune.

According to the legal documents, the "Purple Rain" star had real estate holdings valued at more than $25 million, about $110,000 in bank accounts, cash and unclaimed property, and 67 10 ounce gold bars valued at more than $836,000.

More than $1.3 million is also listed as "cash on hand" from his NPG Music Publishing company.

No stocks or bonds were listed.

But the inventory is not the entirety of the estate.

There is still a trove of unreleased music that has yet to be valued, as well as other personal property including jewelry, studio equipment, instruments and more than a dozen vehicles.

His estate could also make money off of his likeness which, according to the paperwork, is still in the process of being valued.

The actual members of his estate are still also being sorted out.

There have been multiple claims filed by those seeking to be named as heirs since Prince died in April 2016 of an opioid overdose.

The singer left no will.

According to the Star Tribune a hearing is scheduled for Jan. 12 in Carver County probate court to help decide a number of issues including who qualifies as an heir.

--CNN's Carma Hassan contributed to this report.

Have you been drinking again Margi?

TonyVanDam said:

PurpleDiamonds1 said:

laurarichardson said:

-- His firm does handle intellutal property cases but I would think that Universal that job covered. Funny thing about civil suits you usually need to have a criminal trial first and suing someone with two nickels to there name is usually pointless. We shall see.

Maybe they are going to use him for the criminal case...whenever that may be

FYI The family cannot use this new attorney for a criminal case.

Only a prosecutor can take a criminal case to trial, an attorney in private practice cannot.

Just saying.

Pass the wine.

margi said

There are often references made as you just have, to the value of the unreleased music and the probate it will attract as part of the estate being dealt with in court. As I have always understood and commented before, the music of Prince, released and unreleased is owned by the LLc and therefore not part of the estate. It should not be referred to all by the estate comments as the LLC was started 2014 with a charter that was put in place by Prince and will be adhered to by the Management he also put in place. He started this LLC to handle his vast trove of music and the income from such ventures as he outlined. The income stream derived from this music has already been asigned to his beneficiaries by Prince for the future 120 years which is the term of copyright. No one outside this LLC being family, court or anyone else not nominated by Prince can ever interfere with his plans. NO WILL NEEDED.

All P's LLC's are in the Estate.

P is the sole owner of the LLC's and there are no beneficiaries of his LLC's.

[Edited 3/3/17 21:11pm]

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

laurarichardson said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

laurarichardson said:

laurarichardson said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

FYI The family cannot use this new attorney for a criminal case.

Only a prosecutor can take a criminal case to trial, an attorney in private practice cannot.

Just saying.

Pass the wine.

--- Do you think this attorney could have been added for the purpose of filing a civil suit? I am thinking maybe but would the probate court be receiving his information? I also think about the massive trademark and copyright infringement that is going on would Tyka and Omarr need to obtain an attorney to handle that it would UMG or Comerica take care of those issues?

Comerica would file the lawsuit, and represent the Estate in Federal Court just like the Special Administrator did against Tidal for copyright infringement. It would not be filed in the Estate case.

This attorney is individually representing Tyka and Omarr, and not the Estate.

[Edited 3/4/17 10:02am]

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

ISaidLifeIsJustAGame said:

rogifan said:

Looks like UMG is starting to go after FB pages. I think this is dumb. Go after bootlegs fine or if someone is posting entire albums or concerts to FB. But most of the stuff I see posted there is not that at all. It's maybe a 2 minute clip of a Dreamer guitar solo from Welcome 2 Europe. What harm is there in leaving that stuff on YouTube or Facebook? I doubt the Estate is going to offer every concert he ever professionally filmed for purchase. Quit completely scrubbing him from the internet. https://theiconicprince.w...unishment/

Why dont they go after the people who are actually making money from P's image and likeness?

I constantly see Prince jewelry, paintings, clothing, etc posted on Facebook, Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy.

Why bother with the fans who post just a few minutes of a live concert?

SMFH

I totally agree with both of you. I think it's harmless for people to put videos of live performances on Facebook and YouTube if Prince never released these recordings. The live performances will allow more people to be exposed to his music. I totally agree that UMG should be going after the bootleggers and those who are illegally posting songs/albums that he has released.

--

Regarding merchandise, I wish that the PP and UMG would have a better selection of t-shirts and posters available to compete with those who are selling unauthorized merchandise. PP has a very limited selection of t-shirts and UMG's Bravado doesn't have anything available yet for Prince on their website http://www.bravado.com/.

[Edited 3/4/17 17:27pm]