1st Circuit: Singer Is ‘Featured Artist,’ Entitled To Royalties From Records

(June 26, 2024, 8:20 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — The former lead singer of one of Puerto Rico’s most popular musical acts is a “recording artist . . . featured” on the band’s recordings and not the corporate entity that owns the band or that entity’s owner, a panel of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled, reversing a Puerto Rico federal judge’s decision to deny summary judgment to the singer in a royalty dispute over certain of the band’s recordings....