Miller v. UMG Recordings, Inc. (erroneously named as Def Jam Recordings, Island Records, and Universal Music Group)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ERIC L. MILLER, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 19-cv-02262 UMG RECORDINGS, INC., a Delaware Judge John Robert Blakey corporation, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER In 2008, Plaintiff Eric Miller signed an agreement with Defendant UMG Recordings, Inc. wherein he promised to deliver Kanye West’s early, unreleased master recordings. In return, Defendant agreed to commercially release the recordings. It declined to do so, however, because it found that the master recordings contained samples that neither Defendant nor…