Daily Observer (Jamaica)

‘Flava’ Mcgregor sues BMI

- BY BRIAN BONITTO

them myself. I sat down an’ write the lawsuit myself. Did you know, nobody can ever explain your situation like you? This is why mi file it. And if I get a lawyer put on it, all he has to do is to continue the journey,” the South Florida-based Mcgregor told the

Formed in 1939, BMI is the largest music rights organisati­on in the United States. It represents more than 17 million musical works created and owned by over 1.1 million songwriter­s, composers and music publishers.

Court documents state that in early 2011, Mcgregor noticed that Bertlesman­n Music Group Rights Management (BMG) began appearing on the compositio­ns he registered with BMI. BMG allegedly advised him that VP Records and its publishing company STB Music had assigned his rights to them. A former division of German media company Bertelsman­n, a majority of BMG’S assets were acquired by Sony Corporatio­n of America in October 2008. “I have been having discussion­s with BMI since 2011 and haven’t been getting anywhere. I had no other choice but to sue them,” said Mcgregor.

This is not Mcgregor’s first legal battle. In 2017 he had a similar tussle with VP Records for which there was an “out-of-court settlement”, and in July a Florida court threw out a two-year lawsuit filed by him against deejay Khago.

A former disc jockey, Mcgregor got involved in music production nearly two decades ago.

He has produced a number of hit songs including Gyptian’s

Queen Ifrica’s

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