Father of Bossa Nova
The amount relates to missing payments for the artist’s copyright on record sales
Agência Brasil October 19, 2023 7:04 am Updated 8 hours ago
João Gilberto Photo: Disclosure/Sesc Audiovisual Collection
The 14th Private Law Chamber of the Court of Justice of the State of Rio de Janeiro has set the value of the compensation that the record company EMI Records Brasil will pay to the heirs of the singer and composer João Gilberto at R$150 million. Father of Bossa Nova.
The judges unanimously approved the opinion of the last report on Tuesday (17). The value refers to the sale of the artist’s works from November 1964 to October 2014. The process was opened in 1997 by João Gilberto himself, who died in 2019.
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João Gilberto disagreed with EMI’s decision to rerelease his 1988 works remastered. With the dispute in court, the artist did not receive the copyright during this period. In the first report, compensation was set at R$13.5 million.
The court decision states that João Gilberto sold 443,000 records in his 50year career. In 2020, the singer’s heirs filed an appeal, questioning the value. In the now approved report, the number of records sold was increased to 2,809,885. Of these, 1,720,371 were sold on the domestic market and 1,089,514 on the international market.
“The information was obtained and included in the report, in detail, with detailed description, overviews of albums, original career albums, compilation albums, compilations, rereleases, in short, all without excuses and with an indication of how they were used and which ones Declines have been made, including the adoption of the sales development curve of the Brazilian phonographic market presented by EMI,” emphasized in the vote the judge Adolpho Correa de Andrade Mello Júnior, rapporteur of the trial.
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