Sony suing themselves...?
15 May 2012
Source: Billboard.biz
Australian singer-songwriter Allan Caswell is suing his music publisher, Sony ATV, for failing to collect royalties for a song that he penned for the 1980s television soap, ‘The Prisoner’.
Caswell claims American band Alabama stole his song to produce their 1982 song, Christmas in Dixie, resulting in three decades of unpaid royalties. Both Caswell and Alabama are signed to different divisions of Sony Music.
"That's the problem," Caswell told a local TV station in Australia. "I'm signed to Sony ATV. Alabama is signed to Sony Music. So it's all in-house. There's no incentive for them to take action. They basically can't take action because they'd be suing themselves."
The dispute is currently being fought at the Supreme Court of NSW. According to reports Sony is defending the claim. 
