Brown v. Death Row Records, Inc. (In Re Brown)

OPINION

DAVID A. SCHOLL, Chief Judge.

A INTRODUCTION

The instant proceeding (“the Proceeding”) is in essence a counterclaim to proofs of claim filed by Defendants DEATH ROW RECORDS, INC. (“DRR”) and SUGE MUSIC (“SM;” with DRR, “the Defendants”) in connection with, respectively, a recording contract and a publishing contract entered into between RICARDO E. BROWN, JR. (“the Debtor”), a recording artist, and the Defendants, by which the Debtor seeks to recover unpaid royalties. In light of ambiguities in the contracts, all of which we must construe against the Defendants, as drafters of adhesion…