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Jury Rules for White Stripes
After 20 minutes, the White Stripes got to put the checkbook away.
That's how long it took an eight-member federal jury to decide Thursday that the Detroit-based band did not have to share royalties with a producer who worked on the duo's first couple of albums.
Jim Diamond, listed as a coproducer on the White Stripes' self-titled debut album and as sound mixer on Jack and Meg White's sophomore effort, De Stijl, sued the Grammy-winning band in April, claiming he helped shape its signature sound and deserved royalty payments from those first two albums.
The White Stripes denied that Diamond influenced its creativity in any way and stated he was paid $35 an hour for his producing and mixing input at the time.
Jack White's attorney, Bert Deixler, told the jury the plaintiff had acted in a technical capacity and followed Jack's instructions in the studio--not the other way around.
Diamond "manufactured these claims...only after the Whites became successful," Deixler said in court. "Money changes everything."
The White Stripes' first and second albums were modestly successful, compared to 2003's two-time Grammy winner, Elephant, and last year's Get Behind Me Satan--De Stijl reached number 38 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart in 2002, two years after its release and mainly bolstered by the band's growing popularity.
Diamond's lawyer, Stephen Wasinger--mentioning that his client's name can be found on the liner notes for 1999's The White Stripes--argued that Jack White had promised his client credit where credit was due, but "changed his position once [he] and Megan White realized there was money to be made from these records? Mr. Diamond at that time, in that place, was equally talented."
As part of Wasinger's strategy to show that Jack White had a volatile personality, he had Von Bondies frontman Jason Stollsteimer testify Tuesday that White had pinned a threatening, obscenity-laced note to his front door with a knife. White, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to slugging Stollsteimer at a Detroit nightclub in '03, called the singer's statement a "laughable lie."
White told the Detroit News outside court he was pleased with the verdict and had admittedly been a little worried.
"You never know what's going to happen in a trial," he said.
While ex-husband-and-wife Jack and Meg White are still very much a musical item, Jack has been making the alt-rock scene lately with his new band the Raconteurs, whose debut album, Broken Boy Soldiers, debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 last month. The quartet--White, guitarist Brendan Benson, drummer Patrick Keeler and bassist Jack Lawrence--announced last week the second leg of their first-ever North American tour will kick off Sept. 14 and include an appearance Sept. 16 at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
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