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Taylor Hicks Settles for Control
That's the way they do things down South, nice and gentleman-like.
A week after he sued a music producer for wrongfully profiting from three songs he wrote and recorded before capturing the American Idol crown, Taylor Hicks reached what was called an "amicable" settlement with the man.
In exchange for dropping his request for more than $75,000 in damages Tuesday, Hicks was awarded full control over the master recordings of "The Fall," "Son of a Carpenter" and "In Your Time," the latter two of which were briefly available for downloading from Apple's iTunes Music Store.
"We were primarily just making sure that Taylor had the rights to the music," Hicks' attorney, Joe Leak, told the Associated Press. Another one of Hick's legal reps, Michael J. Douglas, had stated in court that the recordings Smith had in his possession were of poor quality and could damage his client's reputation--if the public, including the Soul Patrol, ever got wind of them, that is.
Tennessean producer William Smith had claimed that Hicks recorded those songs under his watch in 2001, but the 29-year-old Alabama native maintained he laid them down in 1997.
Hicks also agreed not to pursue further legal action against Smith, who kicked off these proceedings with a July 24 email to Hicks' lawyer stating that he would be putting "The Fall" up for sale and that he hoped his former protégée would not "go negative."
"I have no desire to harm himĀ?only help him and myself," Smith wrote.
Smith, who runs William Smith Productions and Baldwin Entertainment in Nashville, and Leak agreed that "Son of a Carpenter" and "In Your Time" were not on iTunes long enough to have made much of a difference in Smith's bank account, profit-wise.
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