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Post by surfy on Apr 28, 2015 0:16:45 GMT -5
I saw your videos all over my Instagram... I'M SO JEALOUS!!! <3
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Post by The Upper Hand on Jun 9, 2015 16:17:20 GMT -5
Billboard: Kesha Claims Sony Puts Female Artists in 'Physical Danger' in Dr. Luke LawsuitBy Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter | June 09, 2015 12:07 PM EDT An amended complaint asserts that Sony Music has "forced an abusive relationship" between singer and producer. Pop star Kesha Sebert has followed up her bombshell lawsuit against producer Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald with an amended complaint that adds Sony Music as a defendant for allegedly supporting and ratifying his behavior. In Los Angeles Superior Court, Kesha previously claimed that Luke, 41, drugged and "forced himself" on her, threatened to take away her publishing rights and constantly belittled her appearance, driving her to bulimia. She's now turned her attention to Sony and alleges in new papers obtained by The Hollywood Reporter that record labels are desperate for "pop sensations" amid declining sales and thus have made a "substantial investment" -- $60 million -- in Dr. Luke for his ability to develop "catchy and creative talent." But Kesha, represented by Mark Geragos, asserts there is a cost to doing business with the famous producer. According to her amended complaint, "Dr. Luke's proclivity for abusive conduct was open and obvious to [Sony Music Entertainment] Doe executives, who either knew of the conduct and turned a blind eye, failed to investigate Dr. Luke's conduct, failed to take any corrective action, or actively concealed Dr. Luke's abuse." Kesha's reps have claimed that Dr. Luke has abused others and that Sony should be held partly responsible too. "SME's conduct placed Jane Doe female artists, including Ms. Sebert, in physical danger by giving Dr. Luke full creative and business control, with nearly limitless financial resources, over young female artists who necessarily were compelled to become dependent upon his good will." The amended complaint further alleges that Kesha complained about the terms of her agreements with Dr. Luke -- that he won't renegotiate "as he promised and according to industry custom" -- and that Sony's has "ratified" this by giving Dr. Luke a record label deal and a "platform to continue his abuse." "Based on SME's conduct, SME has forced an abusive relationship between Dr. Luke and Ms. Sebert to this day," states the amended complaint. The newest legal papers are the latest in a legal blowup that initiated last October. Dr. Luke has filed his own lawsuit in New York and has suggested that Kesha's sexual abuse claims are cover for her real concern over contracts. His attorneys have been pushing the judge in New York to allow his claims — which also include defamation against Geragos and Kesha's mother -- to continue instead of awaiting what happens in California. The judge in New York has kept an open mind and recently, Kesha submitted a motion to pause the New York litigation with a nod to claims being made against Sony. A California judge is set to make her own ruling about whether to pause Kesha's lawsuit in favor of Dr. Luke's in New York pursuant to a forum clause in Kesha's contract with Dr. Luke. Kesha's amended complaint serves her goal to have the dispute play out in California because by bringing Sony into the mix, Kesha's attorneys argue those deals are without a New York forum clause. Dr. Luke's attorneys dispute this reading of the contract. But whether or not this dispute is really about money, Sony will now have to face claims that it should be liable for sexual abuse and battery, sexual harassment, gender violence and more. The amended lawsuit also states that Sony is continuing to support Dr. Luke's "conduct designed to destroy Ms. Sebert's career in retaliation for Ms. Sebert bravely bringing forward her claims of abuse." Sony declined comment. "This seems like a desperate effort," responds Christine Lepera, attorney for Dr. Luke. "It's conclusions without facts, and there's nothing new. They are trying to embroil Sony and it won't work." This article originally appeared in The Hollywood Reporter. www.billboard.com/articles/news/6590753/kesha-sony-female-artists-dr-luke-lawsuit
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2015 19:12:00 GMT -5
:(
If Luke is guilty, including Sony is a no-brainer (a very heightened form of respondeat superior, basically); but by continuing make the existence of other victims part of her claims, Kesha is pretty much ensuring that this suit will not be at all successful unless at least one of those Jane Does is willing to reveal her identity and be a witness on Kesha's behalf.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 9:24:11 GMT -5
I guess she isn't going to release new music until the lawsuit is done. :| I really miss her and I can't wait for her to release a new album.
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Post by getonthebus on Jun 11, 2015 9:29:11 GMT -5
:( If Luke is guilty, including Sony is a no-brainer (a very heightened form of respondeat superior, basically); but by continuing make the existence of other victims part of her claims, Kesha is pretty much ensuring that this suit will not be at all successful unless at least one of those Jane Does is willing to reveal her identity and be a witness on Kesha's behalf. Someone get Sabi or Lesley Roy on the phone ASAP.
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Post by nikkominaj on Jun 11, 2015 9:45:40 GMT -5
I wonder if it hurts her to perform her Dr. Luke tracks. I think if she does leave this record label and pursues new music it might be a new style and she might phase out her old hits.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 18:42:20 GMT -5
I think if she does leave this record label and pursues new music it might be a new style and she might phase out her old hits. I'm sure it does sting a little. I don't think she'll have a choice but to phase them out though. Luke is an incredibly controlling and petty man, and she's signed through him directly. It's a safe bet that there's something in her contract that will prevent her from profiting off of any of the material they recorded together if the contract is ever dissolved. She'll probably have to phase all of them out. That's if she ever does get out of it. Unless she wins this lawsuit, she likely won't be let out of her contract until it expires* or is fulfilled. The latter likely won't happen, because I highly doubt she wants to record with Luke; and I doubt even more he'd let her work with other producers and not him for an album on his label, even if she paid out of pocket. There's a reason that 'Lover' was never pushed on pop (as was originally planned) and was ultimately pulled from bandcamp. *That's assuming it even has an expiration date. I'm fairly positive she can't buy it out, or she would have done that first then filed the suit-- or at least, that would've made sense. ETA: I think it goes without saying, but this situation just blows. Speaking of: If Luke is guilty, including Sony is a no-brainer (a very heightened form of respondeat superior, basically); but by continuing make the existence of other victims part of her claims, Kesha is pretty much ensuring that this suit will not be at all successful unless at least one of those Jane Does is willing to reveal her identity and be a witness on Kesha's behalf. This is what's so f**king sad about it. I don't think she's lying at all, and I firmly believe that she knows that she's hurting her own case (what lawyer wouldn't tell her that?), but I think she's doing it for those women and, well, it just sucks. You'd think post Cosby-gate someone would've spoken up by now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 20:34:26 GMT -5
You'd think post Cosby-gate someone would've spoken up by now. Most of the women who stepped forward regarding Cosby were years past their statutes of limitation when they finally admitted they'd also been raped by him. There were women saying 'yeah he drugged me in the '80s' - just insanity. That's what really makes Kesha's story so sad to me right now - I also believe her but it could be like Cosby, where it is years and years before the truth finally comes out to the public even though plenty of people know the deal. I find no comfort in seeing an old man finally falling from grace after he's lived a rich life and won't receive any punishment other than a few final years of public embarrassment before dying. Another sticking point with Kesha's suit is that it's civil. This is really a criminal issue, but Kesha herself probably can't file criminal charges now and the Jane Does will probably be hard-pressed to file something themselves out of the same fears that Kesha dealt with before this. I'm really holding out hope that my instinct about Kesha telling the truth is right (b/c this would be such an awful and unnecessary thing to lie about to get out a contract when you could just make a lot of music really quickly), and that one or more or all of them step forward. Maybe her legal team is hoping to be able to have that person's testimony sealed or identity withheld from public record. That could be a big incentive to get someone to testify.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 20:57:36 GMT -5
You'd think post Cosby-gate someone would've spoken up by now. Most of the women who stepped forward regarding Cosby were years past their statutes of limitation when they finally admitted they'd also been raped by him. There were women saying 'yeah he drugged me in the '80s' - just insanity. I get that, but the overwhelming public support behind their coming forward regardless... I mean, that had to count for something. Although I guess these other women could have their careers on the line right now, so it's a little different. Still, it's so frustrating. None of that matters really, just my "social justice" spiel or whatever the fuck.
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Post by getonthebus on Jun 12, 2015 10:30:49 GMT -5
I have absolutely no doubt that she was in an abusive/harmful professional relationship with Luke, based on what we know. That alone should have been enough to get her out of contract with him, and would have been in any other office/professional environment tbh
The recording industry is fucked up, and always has been, for viewing people as commodities and management treating them as objects. It's unacceptable in any workplace, but the fear of repercussions for retaliating legally are so strong that nothing is done to fix it.
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Post by The Upper Hand on Jun 18, 2015 15:13:18 GMT -5
Dr. Luke Wins Halt to Kesha's Sexual Abuse LawsuitBy Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter | June 17, 2015 12:25 PM EDT The pop star runs into a stumbling block in the form of a contract provision that requires disputes be handled in New York rather than California. Pop star Kesha Sebert has suffered a setback in her lawsuit that alleges that producer Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald sexually abused her. A California judge has decided to put this lawsuit on hold. Last October, the two filed dueling lawsuits against each other. Kesha's came in California and claimed that Luke drugged and "forced himself" on her, and used his position of power to take control of her career. Luke's came in New York and claimed that Kesha is attempting to extort him in order to extricate her from contracts. Although Kesha painted a grim picture of working with Dr. Luke, there was a lot about her lawsuit that went beyond talk of an alleged assault to discuss the contractual relationship between the parties. For example, Kesha said that Dr. Luke had promised to renegotiate her deal, but wouldn't, and so she was trapped in a one-sided, onerous agreement. Importantly, Kesha's deals with Luke's Kemosabe Records label, housed under Sony, had a forum clause that stipulated disputes would be handled in New York. "Although plaintiff does not allege any cause of action for breach of contract she certainly does implicate the contracts and indeed asks the court to void them," writes L.A. Superior Judge Barbara Scheper, further adding that Kesha's claims for sexual harassment and gender violence are predicated on the relationship between the two. Kesha's attorneys attempted to avoid this outcome by arguing that the forum clause shouldn't be enforced because she didn't freely enter into the contracts and that New York wasn't the center of the issues involved in the lawsuit. But the judge responds that there's no evidence that the agreements were not the result of an arm's length negotiation or even that Kesha is a resident of California. Kesha also tried to avoid this outcome by recently amending her lawsuit to include Sony as a co-defendant. The amended lawsuit says that Sony should be held liable for supporting and ratifying his behavior. Kesha's attorneys argued the Sony deals are without a New York forum clause, but it doesn't appear to have done the trick. Luke's attorneys are now trumpeting the victory to the New York judge, which will likely mean the dispute continues on the East Coast. Kesha may attempt to bring counterclaims in New York that essentially match what she's alleging in California, but her lawyers must have felt some strategic advantage to having the case litigated elsewhere. If the two had contracted with each other more recently rather than a decade ago when Kesha was 18, the result might have been different. Kesha's attorneys told the California judge that the state laws on sexual harassment and gender violence have been amended to include anti-waiver provisions, meaning that no contract can foreclose a grievance under the statutes, but Scheper responds that the provisions only apply to agreements made after January 1 of this year. This article originally appeared in The Hollywood Reporter. www.billboard.com/articles/news/6598330/dr-luke-halt-kesha-sexual-abuse-lawsuit?mobile_redirection=false
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Post by Live Your Life on Jul 9, 2015 9:04:56 GMT -5
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Aug 23, 2015 17:20:58 GMT -5
Rumor going around the Internet is Kesha is playing Pizazz in the new Jem and the Holograms movie.
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Post by Gray. on Aug 23, 2015 23:03:11 GMT -5
I just want album #3 :( I miss her music in my life.
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Post by wjr15 on Sept 23, 2015 13:16:48 GMT -5
I keep hearing Die Young on the radio all of the time and I read a Buzzfeed article yesterday about what happened to Kesha. Sounds like radio and the public is ready for new Kesha music but I heard that legally she can't make any music until the whole Dr Luke lawsuit is solved. I even heard that her being gone this long will cause irreparable damage to her career. Any thoughts? Here's the article: www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/we-need-to-talk-about-kesha#.oaMyvPPRx
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Post by The Upper Hand on Oct 30, 2015 19:11:11 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2015 23:06:28 GMT -5
She already tried this once as recently as October 3rd. It didn't go through. This won't either.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Oct 31, 2015 23:09:52 GMT -5
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Post by wavey. on Nov 1, 2015 11:03:19 GMT -5
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Post by George on Nov 2, 2015 15:28:31 GMT -5
Anyone see Jem and the Holograms yet? I wonder if she has a good-sized supporting role, or just a cameo?
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Post by Gray. on Nov 3, 2015 9:54:11 GMT -5
^Probably just a cameo, and given the movie's reviews, it's probably better that no one know she was a part of it...
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Post by divasummer on Nov 5, 2015 12:28:42 GMT -5
Strange. Why would Dr Luke want to work with her after she accused him of rape????
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2015 13:45:02 GMT -5
Strange. Why would Dr Luke want to work with her after she accused him of rape???? He doesn't. He just doesn't want her working with anyone else.
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Post by musiciscool on Nov 5, 2015 23:28:45 GMT -5
I want to hear new music from Kesha. Such a shame she is in this mess.
I don't like that she's been gone for so long. Maybe being gone too long can be a bad thing. For this Kesha fan, I will always be ready for new music from Kesha.
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Post by Colton on Nov 29, 2015 19:47:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 20:38:30 GMT -5
Seriously not cute or funny in the slightest. I have never seen a poster try so hard and yet fail so severely at seeking attention as you. Just...stop.
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Post by Colton on Nov 29, 2015 21:12:37 GMT -5
Seriously not cute or funny in the slightest. I have never seen a poster try so hard and yet fail so severely at seeking attention as you. Just...stop. Your tone seems very pointed right now
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Nov 29, 2015 21:15:23 GMT -5
Seriously not cute or funny in the slightest. I have never seen a poster try so hard and yet fail so severely at seeking attention as you. Just...stop. Your tone seems very pointed right now Just...stop.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Nov 29, 2015 23:33:08 GMT -5
You are trying so hard to get banned.
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