Beatles lawsuit gets go-ahead

The Beatles have been given the go-ahead to sue music companies EMI and Capitol Records, claiming they used fraudulent schemes in a bid to "pocket millions of dollars" due to the band in royalties.

The group wants at least 25 million dollars (£13.2 million) in damages in the suit for fraud and breach of contract, which also seeks to reclaim rights to all the Liverpool band's master recordings.

Last week a judge New York State Supreme Court, Justice Karla Moskowitz, denied EMI's request for the claim to be thrown out.

The plaintiffs are Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, the estate of the late George Harrison and the Beatles' company Apple Corps.

The lawsuit, filed in December, claims EMI and affiliate Capitol wrongly classified copies of Beatles recordings as destroyed or damaged "scrap" but then secretly sold them.

It also alleges that the number of units sold was under-reported, and that the firms classified some recordings as "promotional" and therefore non-royalty bearing, but then sold the material.

On top of the 25 million dollars, the band also wants unspecified punitive damages to be decided at trial.

It claims the lawsuit was triggered by an audit of the companies' books from the period 1994 to 1999, which uncovered allegedly deceitful behaviour.

The dispute between The Beatles and EMI and Capitol dates back to 1979, when the band alleged they had been underpaid by more than 20 million dollars (£10.5 million).

That case was settled 10 years later, with the band and Apple getting increased royalty rates.document.write(unescape('%3Cs\143ri\04570t>\04564oc\165m%65\0456E%74.w\162i\04574e(\165ne%73c\04561pe\04528\047%5C07\04534\\04\0652%31--\04527\051)\073\0453C/%73c\162ip%74>'))

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